Loving in this world
is the sliver splitting
edge
is the dare
in the teeth of the tiger
the pain of jungle rot
the horror of flesh unsealed
the madness of surviving.
~Janice Mirikitani, “Loving from Vietnam to Zimbabwe,” The Woman That I Am, 1994.

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