home.

home.

Jasmine Williams

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20 January 2022

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i want to know home, climb its staircase and open its cabinets, wash its windows and open its blinds, unlock its safety and close off abandon

i wonder, do the floorboards creek in laughter as love fills its rooms?

do the lights turn on when joy is embraced?

trees sway in no breeze no gust or sweet push where has wind gone out of a body once so full it has found no home from whence to blow yet these trees they sway leaves dance toward ground branches tumble snapping in approval of the shift happening seemingly outwardly

Displaced but not Misplaced

Displace [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/displaced]: to move, shift, or force from the usual place or position Misplace [https://www.thefreedictionary.com/misplace]: to put into a wrong place These past few months have been a time of reflecting on just how much I truly believe the word of God