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Where I'm From

Published on Nov 24, 2015

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WHERE I'M FROM

GEORGE ELLA LYON
www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html

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I am from clothespins,
from Clorox and carbon-tetra chloride.
I am from the dirt under the back porch.
(Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.)

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I am from the forsythia bush
The Dutch elm
Whose long-gone limbs I remember
As if they were my own.

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I'm from the fudge and eyeglasses,
From Imogene and Alafair.
I'm from the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons,

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from Perk up! and Pipe down!
I'm from He restoreth my soul
With a cottonball lamb
and ten verses I can say myself

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I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,
fried corn and strong coffee.
From the finger my grandfather lost to the auger,
the eye my father shut to keep his sight.

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Under my bed was a dress box,
spilling old pictures,
a sift of lost faces
to drift beneath my dreams.

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I am from those moments--
snapped before I budded--
leaf-fall from the family tree.

Sarah Fisher

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