If I spell my name in bruised melanin

and ink                    across this mud and breath

made flesh             melt down these gold fillings

into an alphabet of love letters

would you recognize your reflection in me


From the collection Prayer Flag PoemsPosted by kind permission of the poet.
Photo by James Lee/Unsplash.

Read more of Hakim Bellamy’s Prayer Flag Poems:
#10, #12


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