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Dr. Maya Angelou said that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of yourself.
As a reading and writing teacher, I believe in teaching stories.
I believe in teaching students to share them.
I believe in teaching them to speak.
I believe it is valuable for them to have the chance to see my authentic voice as a writer in the real world presented in these posts. That is, after all, the purpose of writing—to share it with an audience. To speak. To tell a story like only you can.
This is what it looks like when MnikesaSpeaks.
(Photo by: Rachel Liu-Ballard)
after so
many months
of chemo
your uterus will
begin to cry
bloody tears.
she will be inconsolable
for 7 to 10 days
every month.
like Langston,
you, too,
will know
rivers.
She, ancient
grieving one,
thieving
the unborn children
you didn't have time
to want--
she will keep up
her weeping
red and raging
until you are pricked
with the needle-
the stick-
that makes
women pause--
Then, you,
ill and frightened
daughter,
take your too-soon place
among the barren
graying grandmothers.
