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- pitter/patter by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
- the night is silver in its silence
- moon-pop echoes of the day
- raked up rubble of the hours spent
- my, the children slumber
- a thousand tomorrows bubbling at their lips
- the dream projections lighting up
- the clouds’ ample cotton relish the silence
- as you’ll relish tomorrow
- and the honesty of such raucous noise, thick
- child feet of our unfeathered breasts, beasts we cherish
- hallway run, sprints to smash the mash of food
- tumbling, rolling right into these arms
- charmed in their amnesia regarding where one
- begins or ends
- reminding us of the joy
- of first step and the storm after the holler:
- mama see, mama watch
- pitter/patter
- pitter/patter
- thunder on a hardwood, heartbeat
- this sole and counted rhythm
- every generation a temporal fugitive
- running from the death grip
- every death ship’s watch, yesterdays
- we weren’t meant to make it through
- relish the memory ingrained in the sound
- how these tiny, tiny feet
- grip the floor, say
- tomorrow, tomorrow
- I make you
- tomorrow
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