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Denise Shanté Brown's avatar

This stanza moved my hand to my heart while reading:

"how do you work and job hunt

and laugh and cook

and tend to loving relationships

build homes

when your first home is

obliterated"

<3

Joy Burns's avatar

Take care and thanks for the poem. The bird is a pileated woodpecker.

Aisha Rios (she/they)'s avatar

oh wow, thank you so much for sharing. I was blown away by it’s beauty <3