for Mohamed Bouazizi
Find it in the muscling
heart converge on Tahrir
Square: the certainty
this tiger fightdrum, its
cheer defying day from
night. Find it in magic
tens of thousands, swords
of courage out to play,
never far beneath the
shield. Find its echos
close, close in this here
breath. Hear bone sigh, We
are not leaving, each decade
long sigh. Remind patience
of the billion muscles
witness to each unidentified
martyr, each unmapped
bullet, Mohamed’s flowered lung.
Know this rumbling to be
medicine in their rest.
Through this sinking
window, trees blossom
before showing any
leaf and sun reaches to touch
my skin, whisper Believe this
day to be true, lullaby
what lone fear
resides in this canyon
to trust such beauty in
each brave, brave soul.
after Susan Kinsolving’s “Trust”
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Vanessa Huang
February 11, 2011
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