up.
I lift mine eyes
up.
teach me the meaning
teach me seeing.
up.
at 6 I would sprawl
across the floor, pour out
the jewelry drawer, my mother's tangles
shoved into the corners, pull
at the metal lace rolled
into locked worlds.
I could sit for hours
happily freeing
chain link after chain link:
twisting, pulling, humming
lost and unable
to stop until everysingle tangle
pulled clean.
teach me the word
loss
to let it drop
and lift mine eyes
up.
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