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  Kay Bell

Liberation

12/22/2018

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                    for Georgia O'Keeffe's The Black Place

​Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe
b. November 15, 1887 Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; d. March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, New Mexico City.
Title:  The Black Place
Date: 1944
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With this stone, I am no melancholy woman:    

not relentless
in consideration of death
in the  gray morning
                                                                                     
or groaning at the sunlight
 slipping between the rock.
                                                                                     
Instead,
I am a voice     emerging
 
from the borders of winter;
a victor          in the parting of the red sea
 
  a root thrived 
 in the smallest part of earth
 
whispering:       here I am       here I am       here I am
             
                                                                              free
   


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