Sanctuary

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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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