Excerpt from The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance — Audre Lorde (1992)

Written By Anastasia Zankowsky

…Now I am older than you were when you died
overwork and silence exploding in your brain.
You are gradually receding from my face.
Who were you outside the 23rd Psalm?
Knowing so little
how did I become so much
like you?...

 
Anastasia Zankowsky
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