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Sleep, shelter me.
Shuffle

me back into the deck
where I belong—

Where will you go,
little vagabond,
anonymous familiar,

Ah, these nights of January
when I sit recreating our moments
in my mind and I meet you

The arguments about whether affirmative action has run its course, has accomplished its purposes, or now constitutes an enshrined system of discrimination against white people contain so little historical perspective that they are...

There is a Florida beyond the stars.
It is the same state I find waking here,
alone with my aloneness in the dark,
all things now possible because my own.

& the initial premise?

I am holding a picture of my sister’s unborn child, its face
     seemingly reflective.