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Channel Esther: South Africa Chronicle #14
by Esther Cohen
AFTER SOUTH AFRICA
Now we are home
three long short weeks
to be able to feel
not needing
to understand
so many ways
knowing can be
we see what we want
to see
even beauty
and here we are now
in the life that is
our life
knowing again
what love looks like
Esther Cohen’s new book of poems, Breakfast with Allen Ginsberg, will be published this summer.
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