The Mighty Mississippi

In the Window

Growing up along a border

that divides a country in two

At 4, in Union City

You get what you crossed over for

Like growing up along an imaginary line

Just Reach A Cross

newspaper to newspaper to newspaper

As north as new Hampton

As south as Natchez

For when we go

Onto the next

Again and again

The new girl in town

By the seventh school

The eyes

The Voice

Our story

when I started to see the pattern

it was easy to spot

Sometimes all it takes

Is being familiar

with the corners of your house