Monument by Natasha Trethewey

Author:Natasha Trethewey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

a woman’s hair. Then after:

the vacant lots,

boats washed ashore, a swamp

where graves had been. I recall

how we huddled all night in our small house,

moving between rooms,

emptying pots filled with rain.

The next day, our house—

on its cinderblocks—seemed to float

in the flooded yard: no foundation

beneath us, nothing I could see

tying us  to the land.

In the water, our reflection

      trembled,

disappeared

when I bent to touch it.

Monument

Today the ants are busy

beside my front steps, weaving

in and out of the hill they’re building.

I watch them emerge and—

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