by Lucile Clifton
I am used to the heft of it
sitting against my rib,
used to the ridges of forest,
used to the way my thumb
slips into the sea as I pull
it tight. Something is sweet
in the thick odor of flesh
burning and sweating and bearing young.
I have learned to carry it
the way a poor man learns
to carry everything.
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