Third Poem (Maria)

Do you know now
Wherever whatever you are
The threads between us hum
I try to remember their song

My fingers pinch pulling, pushing
Pixels around to find you
The sky outside your window
In 1945

Millenial ancestor work, take a walk
Down a street on google view
Mitochondria and trauma
Nodding in passing recognition

Typing and retyping
Your name and your other name
Trying to find your obituary

Your face in her face, my face
Your cuts so sharp they crossed
Continents, me learning how 
to suture them all from the future

Tracing screens now, watching
Documentaries about war reading
Textbooks, diagnoses, mythology
Folklore -- peeling garlic, peeling back
the tin of anchovies, stirring the pot
Holding out the spoon for you to taste










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