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Spell for Malic, age 2 - Lisa Fannen

from Faultline by Lisa Fannen and...

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  • Faultline is a collection of poetry published by Active Distribution/Sto Citas, November 2018. The poems are political and personal (and an examination of where those territories meet), observational and contemplative, and travel through explorations of social inequality, police violations, street homelessness in the US, environmental disaster, intimate experiences of queer sexuality, rites of passage and bereavement, also the power of guidance and renewal. Paperback, 127 pages.
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Spell for Malic, age 2 — I wrote this poem after a few days of giving massage to women in the camp at Calais. After I’d massaged one woman, she lay her 2 year old (who had been watching intently from the side of the bed) between her legs and I massaged her too. This poem is for her.

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Spell for Malic, aged 2
Calais, July 2016

Your smile will fill every continent —
we’ll summon all the fire we can muster
to match the shine in you — stand
you will take your long legs to the south
and to the north, open lungs, your mother
tongue and all the rest come singing
from your heart muscle

Your eyes will behold all the seas
as and when you choose, how they will watch
and know and inquire, and be defiant power
staying your laughter’s breadth

Your mother’s mother, and her mother
and her mother and hers, drive you on
into any headwind, no matter the dust
or razor wire, no matter the dark tunnel
or airless crossing stowed between cargo
pulse and soil, all their bones
witness your safe journey

You will be loved by multitudes
they will come and come
everyday standing strong
wherever you tread —
feet kissing the ground
breathing all the winds in

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from Faultline, released May 22, 2020
Voice recorded and mixed by Jer Reid.

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