To Know These Ribs: Maria Sakr

May 1, 2020 Kate Belew With Maria Sakr (New York City)

Whatever is broken just let

It stay broken maybe it will

shatter further until we unlearn meaning

from everything and anything

I mean to say, sometimes I am

Exhausted from being me

because it is so tired to know these ribs

so frail like the roots growing around them,

are all that holds up this tree

a magnificent structure of nothingness.