this is the sound of my mother

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: she talks to me underwater : like salt-wind : like the woman who bathed me in her tears : and taught me to shed my own : there is a great complex of thoughts gestating here : there is something rising out of low green things : there is a place for the hoe breaking the hard earth : there is earth : how near can you get your ear to this heart? : rattles shake as snakes crawl upon it : this is the sound of my mother :

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