Knowing what you've shared of your homelessness etc and your childhood - a blasphemy against innocence - this stanza is heartbreaking to read - Jenine Bsharah Baines

…l and mischievous sound
 of ancient gods and martyrs laughing
 in a paradise emptied of despair.
 
 We skipped rocks, embedding them
 on the opposite bank, pretending 
 the stones were thudding into the forehead
 of a Goliath shaped like our father.
 
 We whooped and hollered, never tiring 
 of the repeated slaughter and victory
 over our fiercest…
A Letter to My Sister Safe in Heaven
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Knowing what you've shared of your homelessness etc and your childhood - a blasphemy against innocence - this stanza is heartbreaking to read
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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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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