Enter, Andrea Walls

ENTER*

Andrea Walls

through the escape hatch. Reverse engineer Every moment, out there, That hurt, erased, maligned, doubted, or belittled you. Submerge through the portal of ancestors, Reclaim the meaning of your name. Adjust the pressure in your brain and in your blood—

Set yourself to peace...

& walk into the lavender and salt water horizon pool, Become weightless and clean. Take as long as it takes

Until you rise on the dry air of destiny, Moving gently through the threshold Of juniper, sage, and cedar smoke...

To dance Into rooms who welcome you with appropriate noise and wonder.

Let the aunties who cook, feed you from the communal hearth...

Let the aunties who refuse to wear shoes Tend to your education...

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Let the aunties who are broken rumble, clamor, and be heard...

Know that our aunties are not concerned with backward notions about gender.

As we reconcile ourselves through ample solitude, Let us retire to dream pockets That sustain us

Move by ones and twos and threes, As the spirit calls, To slumber.

Let us be held and upheld through the night.

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* Inspired by Uk Jung Prompt: Home without constraint

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