An Immigrant's Grandson
Blind man enjoying a movie,
I see her names, too, in this ivy
Meaning wine and god enough to rub
Her story like my teeth, find four legs
For my head at the altar of her hand
And jump the powerful engine drenched in chartreuse pollen
And smoking through the forest halves of raw
And civilised, cultured and primal, on curves
Blocking the vision of it left in flames
But not the lust in ashes to make icons
Out of nowhere: invention and
Accumulation gifting them with tools
Alchemically one with their users and any scraps
They throw in to find happiness,
As I have, living at this address
And where I think it is, sucking fruit
Once forbidden and now without effect
Because I was forbidden, too,
And now live here with no need to beg
For anything but the truth from both sides
Of the lie that represents this place,
Unless it includes the familiar stranger's face
Of innocent people's dignity.
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