I am From.

 

I am from handmade red canoes,

from farm land and a white well.

 

I am from broken bones and bleeding hearts, and crumbling floors and whispering walls.

 

I am from a pear tree

whose bosom gave sanctuary to wasps.

 

I am from rusted trucks and rotted ropes, from Barrett and McGee,

and from drunken slurs and broken promises, from choking on lungfuls of cigarette smoke

 

I am from ‘love thy neighbor, unless thy neighbor is different’, from cornbread and hatred, from smuggling moonshine and from selling secrets

 

Chasing snakes through fields of golden wheat.

 

I am from the moments where everything is perfect outside of closed doors.

 

I am from learning to listen to the walls, and learning to whisper back..

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My family
My community
My country
Our world

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