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Yamamba as a Bear

from Heads Together by Gelsey Bell

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What color are the leaves?
Why do they change slower than she?
What color is my hair?
Why does it change slower than the bear?

Yamamba as a bear
is circling me

I live in a small house
on the side of a mountain
with three sides of windows
and Yamamba
in the form of a bear
is circling me

From my left eye
she’s thick as a boulder marvelous, bulging
& from my right eye
she’s thin as a tree hungry, hungry
staring in at me
& when I can’t see her
she’s sleeping

A year in the span of minutes
Is this what it is to feel time as a tree?
Or a rock or a river?
Yamamba grows and shrinks
before my window eyes

What color are the leaves?
Why do they change slower than she?

What color is my hair?
Why does it change slower than the bear?

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from Heads Together, released March 1, 2024

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Gelsey Bell Brooklyn, New York

singer, songwriter, scholar

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