how a word transforms us seedling taking delicate hold or a… - Lisa Suhair Majaj

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how a word transforms us
seedling taking delicate hold
or a weed choking the tender plants
news enters us and puts down roots

Lisa Suhair Majaj

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Lisa Suhair Majaj (born 1960) is a Palestinian-American poet and scholar.

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consider a delicate porcelain bowl
how it crushes under a single blow-
in one moment whole years disappear

No matter how far you've come, remember:
the starting line is always closer than you think.

so I hoard memories
sort them for seeds to plant
pray they root

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