I am the sum of every ancestral love letter that roams my bones

I am as long as my grandmother’s prayers when stretched thin as tomato sandwiches and suga wata

I am the darkness the moment your eyes adjust to no light

I am vulture carving wings into southern air thick with all left unsaid yet seen

I am water working stone over millennia moving towards sea and source

I am root lifted and re-planted

Call me by the name you trust whispered by the wind that reminds you forever was never ours