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Mystery 2

Mystery 1

Kshanti
Your round face, scarf
and wide-closed eye –
I’ll never see the Buddha
another way again
For Maya
Call home

Justice

Hurry, it’s cold, it’s wet cold
Bakery girl,
what will rid us of your sadness?
You’ve carried it and still,
and I as well,
as bells have tolled
and dusks have walled
alleys away in silence.
Looking for light

Photo of my niece taken by my daughter

Why they grow up why they have to
A blue,
a wild little crying hope
meets the wave that washes it back
and you
emerge,
a girl fish, golden
smiling, turning
swimming away