I AM

I am candle & sun.

I feel me & I am nourished

Electric flesh chlorophyll to stamen

Milky crane settling on mirrored river

Lily first opened

Grandmother's yellow Minneapolis kitchen

Unashamed to love me

Unashamed to love me

Unashamed to love me

Toenails to split ends floating in the Mississippi in July

Full moon.

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I am in every home

I am my own home

I come for revolution

I come for revolution

I come for revolution

Bite the apple & wink.

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House in the trunk

Wrapped in sleep, steeped in energy

Step out in every Middle School choir

What more can my hands do?

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I am the answer to my own question

My ancestors smile, holding the red hat I made their last earthly solstice

I hear my grandfather's song

I lift my own hand

I lift my own hand

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I lift my own hand.