Sharks in the Rivers by Ada Limón

Author:Ada Limón
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2010-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

I wanted to be a hummingbird.

It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always—to be Huitzilopochtli taming my snakes.

Sometimes though, the thought exhausts me and

I want to be a slow horse, a tennis shoe.

2.

Two years ago I listened to the rain on the radiator

sizzle and ping into oblivion.

And I sat up in the no-account streetlight light and said,No one has done anything to me.

And the drops kept coming like offerings in the obedient now.

That’s true. You have done all this to yourself.

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