Poem of the Week: ‘Forward through the adverts’ by Lee Switzer

2nd Place

‘Nature vs. Nurture’ by Suzi Ataei

You are

a conglomeration –

words given breath,

thoughts lurking behind teeth,

shadow

split

into ancestral circulating rivers

gushing

wisdom:

a jagged island shaped by the ocean.

 

Waves

mold everything touched with their essence –

grooves pressed into your life’s texture,

colored with everlasting impressions,

permanent

and

defining.

 

I am me

and

you are you:

this body,

its vibrations

fluctuations

and allegations –

they are mine.

 

Yet –

can you hear father in the amused curl of my lips?

Does mother greet you from the depths of my indignant gaze?

Grandmother’s wisdom rises and falls with the cadence of my song,

grandfather lives in the humility of my bones,

Iran shrouds the proud line of my spine,

Texas chisels the stubborn line of my jaw,

North Carolina curves the provocative tilt of my hips,

and

my sister’s vicious vivacity burns my blood.

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