SandScript 2021

WATER
Kentaro Herder
your mother carried you through new moon
and full moon
creating craters
here you are out of your mother’s
cratered womb
your mother birthed you
along a stream
creating a river
here you are raging and choking in your mother’s
quivering rain
your mother shed tears six generations
deep, you seven
creating pain
soiled tears
here you are drinking recycled rain from your mother’s
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