GROWING PAINS

  Growing up on the porch

  instead of rearing untamed

  through the fields and groves

  is no sin. You grow as tall as her.

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  You grow as kind as him.

  The growing doesn’t eye

  the domestic scent of

  whitewashed boards

  and bricks and sneer.

  It stretches its roots

  and sighs—I’m on my way

  up.