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I should be writing about mountains
Chantae Bryant
I should be
writing about mountains,
but I can’t
stop thinking about war.
A dream deferred
does
it
sink?
To its knees like
a burlap sack filled with sand -
does
it
hold?
The bloody memory of a limb.
A hand that held
a lover.
The arms that hugged
a mother.
I should be
writing about the canyons.
About the empty echos
of our laughter
sharp along desert grooves.
Like
white
hot
bullets
and agony in the dry heat.
Chantae Bryant is a writer currently based in Fukuoka, Japan. She holds a B.A. in English from Colorado Mesa University. When not buried in a book or a journal, you may find her watching early 2000s horror movies.
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