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Photo
of My Grandmother Running Toward Us On a Beach in Ilokos
Consider instead how happy she is
carrying the whole load of an ocean
on her head the way some women carry
water or fruits or fish My Lola
and the whole goddamned ocean
Tides Whalebone Reef And my dark
dark
cousins stomping
through the breakers She really is
happy
about this which is why
she is closing her eyes running
toward
her American grandchildren
who wait for her on the shore
She
is sopping wet trying to balance
an entire sea on her head Her arms are
flung
wide open And she laughs
as if she were asking us
to
bring our burdens too
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