The minerals we leech from the place we’re born

The minerals we leech from the place we’re born.
Calcium hooves and oiled lungs,
The blows we bore like a battering drum.

A warm breeze brings the killer bees hum.
Barbed wire creaks neath the white sun.

Tell me you’re sorry for where I’m from.
But I may become
the teeth and the tongue
of your son’s son’s son.

Magical realist folk oil painting figures in haystacks march towards the viewer. A man brushes dust off a porch to the right. Below a cat hunts a mouse.

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