Liz Ness
Another’s Shoes
Response
Splayed
By Darice Jones
Inspiration piece
Today
sitting in the groove of her lush and looming backyard ash tree
Where the roots wound down invisibly into the
cinnamon-colored earth and her bare feet
relaxed into an unearned comfort, up against the forever yielding green grass
Emma wondered seriously,
maybe for the first time in her life, if she were a good person
she suddenly and sullenly recalled chronic complaints of her cinnamon-colored friends, co-workers, bosses, and mentees
the way she’d courted the imaginary middle ground
where she could be both an ally and a leveler,
encouraging a “reasonable” way out of the racial tensions, rather any willingness to go in.
she leaned back
fully touching the ash
Written Under a Virgo Sun
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