Letting Go
-Gloria Anzaldua
It's not enough
deciding to open.
You must plant your fingers
into your navel, with your two hands
split open,
spill out the lizards and horned toads
the orchids and the sunflowers,
turn the maze inside out.
Shake it.
Yet, you don't quite empty.
Maybe a green phlegm
hides in your cough.
You may not even know
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