THE SIXTIES

digitally-altered photo - S. Auberle

THE SIXTIES

"I quiver as a body in rapture, I quiver
as a wing, I am an explosion, I overstep myself."
- Anna Swir

And now
in this decade,
in this light,
all the selves
I've forced into seclusion,
banished without a trace,
unpardoned
are suddenly waking.
All the selves,
shouting, celebrating,
the ones I labeled
not good enough,
didn't fit, deleted (I thought)
are dancing, racing
through that wide blue door
where the world opens
enormous arms and asks
what took you so long?

- mimi