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Well, somewhere

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Well, somewhere

National Poetry Month 2022

Rose J. Percy
Apr 13, 2022
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Well, somewhere

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Longing for a moment of 

Black joy I can wrap around me

And tuck under my feet

*

There’s a well somewhere

For those of us

Wanting to be well

Somewhere

*

Too much on the calendar 

Too many reminders

So many tasks

All the breaths I take on a timer

*

I wanna go where that well is

Live a life 

Leaned up against it

Leave behind the world

Against me

*

Damn 

*

*

The tears are fallin…

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