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Speak One Promise

04.04.13 Posted in today's words by

Mariah Boone’s most recent poem to appear here was Uprooted (September 2012). Have you noticed we are knee-deep in National Poetry Month?

Speak One Promise

By Mariah Boone

Almost-pink striations of the pinto bean
Are blue-speckled eggs the size of fingernails
Are silvering purple cartography on swelling bellies


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