Our Latest Title: Murder Ballad

". . . you will be carried away."

—Naomi Shihab Nye

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Mules

 When they told us Don’t speak until spoken to, we grew

 ears the size of corn.

When they forced us to eat everything we swallowed

 their hurt whole.

When they hit us for drawing on the wall we painted

 doors that opened behind curtains.

For generations they lived like this. Wanting badly to

 save us—not knowing how.

& all the while we found love in unlikely places: In

 the ravaged church of our bodies & our faces,

refracted in their long faces.