from: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

April 19, 2024April 2, 2024 Guillermo

from: Citizen: An American Lyric

The  patience is in the living. Time Opens out to you.

The opening, between you and you, occupied,
zoned for an encounter,

given the histories of you and you—

And always, who is this you?

Rankine, Claudia. Citizen. Graywolf Press, 2014, p. 140.

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