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Genius. As is:

I’ll come to love it soon enough

like the climber loves the granite,

each jagged, sturdy slab

a foothold,

pulling me up higher until I find my place

of peace,

until I can kiss the clouds

and spit down on all the shit below

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Jenine Bsharah Baines
Jenine Bsharah Baines

Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines

J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself

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