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Rosemary White Shield

On Trying to Make Chit Chat at Dinner

Tell me, he says
of your heart’s desire
I will give it to you.

I want what you
cannot give me
I say.

How do I explain home?

The home I find

in slits, cracks, slivers
of light between

the teeth of the day

where God meets me
walks my inner earth
listens to my stones inside me |
touches those small rock creviced places, :

turning my heart i
into a blazing red sun
burning the sky |
burning the world
burning into eternity. ;

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