Shahid Reads His Own Palm by Reginald Dwayne Betts

Author:Reginald Dwayne Betts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Ode to a Kite

& they rename you kite, as if a word can make wings.

You are a piece of paper tied to string, singing like a schoolgirl.

The paper flung into the hall & spit into another cell

or folded neatly into an envelope & dropped into a mailbox.

The envelope always has a rose drawn on the corner. Sweet weight,

your nothingness is the kind of hope that keeps razors

from plucking away at the flesh covering a vein. Tell them you’re

not worthy. Whisper everything you hold back into their ears

as ink seeps into the white of you.

If the arm pressed on the table was yours, you’d want the truth about

flight. Tell those men a letter is just a letter, let them know that a name

alone can never grant wings. & still say you love it: to be called kite. Yes.

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