rearranged (for Nina Mingya Powles)

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2024

there are books

it does not make sense

to read at home

I would not (always)

say I love them

they are just…

still here

they tremble in my ears

or in my hands

by the window of

planes and trains and

I am a different person

when I arrive home

my atoms rearranged

to fit the new syllables

I can tell

I will be even more different

tomorrow

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Written 1/17/24

Inspired by Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles

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