THE HYMN OF THE PEARL by Lori Nielsen Driggs & Melissa Tshikamba
he Hymn of the Pearl is an origin story answering the questions, “Where do I come from?” and “What is my purpose on earth?”
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he Hymn of the Pearl is an origin story answering the questions, “Where do I come from?” and “What is my purpose on earth?”
as a child I saw my future audience clearly in sunday school I was taught to write for all my future children and all their future children that they may know my girlmind I worked hard to sound good :: as a teenager I called it my journal I stopped saying dear in college I said notebook look how I hammered these words into work when we moved across the country the first time I packed gently so the heavy notebooks wouldn’t crush the small diaries :: I threw away half of the notebooks diaries and journals a few years […]
Poised between rejection and acceptance, I have been asking the wrong question. Not “why don’t I dress up?” but rather, “how naked am I willing to be?“
Evening comes on. / A woman raises her hand to the sky;
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