Céréales & Tubercules Manioc 2018
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Jessica Mehta<br />
Bodies of Water<br />
We are made of the ocean,<br />
spiked with salt and crackling<br />
bones half gone to sand. Within us<br />
is the whole wide sea, swimming<br />
fish and fragile reefs. Sirens<br />
aren’t made up, they tuck<br />
and knot between our ribs—call us<br />
to our depths with songs<br />
that ring of memories. We tell children,<br />
Never turn your back to the waves<br />
not for the unknown, surprise<br />
tsunamis and creeper currents, but for all<br />
the knowing stored<br />
like sunken chests within our marrow.<br />
What goes challenger deep<br />
rises again. In every particle<br />
of our everything, the calcium<br />
that builds our skeleton, we remember<br />
the brine that came before, and all<br />
the leagues of which we’ll go.
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