Writer's Excerpts

Diaspora

by Molly Peacock

published in TOK: Writing the New Toronto - Book 3

I could lose you, but I haven’t so far.
I might amuse you, but I daren’t, so far.
I could confuse you, but I won’t, so far.
Would I refuse you? No, I say.

I’ve chosen you, yes, this far
from where I was born, faraway
from where I woo you, using my hands

to soothe you, meeting your hands...

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