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//\\//\\ Hagar's Poem //\\//\\
"He is my home in this world"
—Hagar *
he took away
everything familiar
cast me in this vault
of Time & Silence
where the years muffle,
but do not paralyze my screams
he should have taken
this red heart roaring
between my legs
instead
Copyright © Stacy M. Floyd
* from the novel "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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