growth when i do not recognize my hands / when i am
no longer planted / when standing is a staircase
much too steep / i write down my limits / revise,
reach / bones liquified / i gather my roots/
place palm to cheek / what house have we built
when earth turns to ash? / i packed up my things, left my
grief in the sink / stitched up my
body with needle and thread / like icarus, flown
too close to the sun / i leapt, with melted remains,
undone / ruined, it was then i recall, i
remembered / weeds that grow between
concrete cracks / that every drought holds a
single blade of grass / that diamond is coal
baptized in fire /
and home is a resurrection dance
sojourner brown
