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Sanctuary
Suppose it's easy to slip
into another’s green skin,
bury yourself in leaves
and wait for a breaking,
a breaking open, a breaking
out. I have, before, been
tricked into believing
I could be both an I
and the world. The great eye
of the world is both gaze
and gloss. To be swallowed
by being seen. A dream.
To be made whole
by being not a witness,
but witnessed.
Ada Limón, https://www.vqronline.org/poetry/2021/12/sanctuary
Published December 13, 2021; Photograph by Lucas Marquardt.
On July 12, 2022 Ada Limón was named the 24th poet laureate of the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/07/12/ada-limon-poet-laureate/

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