Ari Nystrom Rice Poems

Daughter Water washes me
Cleanses me
Frees me
Freedom like salmon out of a dam
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I breathe your fumes through my little lungs.
I breathe through the shallow waters.
I breathe through the murky muds.
I smell the putrid stinging in my throat.
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I don't know who you are!
I've been looking for you all across the city
I feel between us the bars
You know they must be feeling witty
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