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Place my bones in a hollow tree
to be a bird’s nest foundation.
Writing this brings me close to animals,
and the rote animal in me that is afraid.
It’s good to say blunt things.
It’s ok to die at times—

“I am writing the poem to be my parents now, because I give birth to it.
I use metaphors so they fail,
use writing as glasses,
use people as examples of symptoms,
and I’m dying of life,
but Mommy gave birth so she could be seen.
I came out of the womb with a job I can’t quit.”