The Tarheel State
Fri, 21 May 2010 at 02:01am
To Mary, Full of Grace
A patient-advocate on the radio talks about poetry as healing
with a voice that gently twangs to my Aunt's house
in Rocky Mount, North Carolina
i haven't seen her preach in years
or her in maybe as many
The radio acknowledges that poetry can challenge
not just go to a place of beauty
"beyond the hospital ward"
and my plate collecting aunt once hid
according to legend, from the KKK
Guiltily, I assumed her voice came
from her long-repaired hair lip
though since several times a
local-flavoured voice has unknowingly chided me
with flattened consonants,
but always with delicacy
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