The Rumors


I taught myself to sleep

through fevers without dreaming,

to believe only what I was able to confirm

true by holding my breath.


Aspiring to wisdom

meant I had to learn my faith

differently than it seemed from a distance.


The way that Marc Chagall’s “America Windows”

are mostly blue, my survival, too, has been colored


by my experiences. What else have you heard?

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