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Stone Skin

Gabeba Baderoon

2007-01-22

In the castle the statues stiffen

with perfection. Outside the stone walls,

the African immigrants hold out their hands

offering roses and good fortune.

The boy lays his small foot on marble,

light and eternal. The Madonna holds his head

on her lap. Outside, the gestures of the hands

are not aesthetic, are not silent.

At night, the stone wall keeps in its place,

and outside, the silence, the growing silence.

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