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DRUM
Suspended within the shadow of the voices
Her shrill entered us
pitching and crying survival
soft pulses transformed into powerful strokes
Beating, Beating Tradition
given in Ceremony.
Slivers of standing sisters arc in the air
brushing waves of songs
Connecting ancestral stories to tongues of children.
© Copyright June 1999 Alice Aguilar
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