8.31.2024

one of anything

If this world could stop 
for a moment 
and see me; 
if I could step out 
into the street and become 
one of them, 
one of anything, 
I would sing— 
no, weep right here—to simply 
be and be and be. . . 
 
[Rita Dove {1952- } ‘Finale’, from Sonata Mulattica]

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