An American’s Poem

We are light and dark. 

We are trapped in between

and 

Yet my country still stretches from sea to sea,

the rocket’s red glare gleams for you and I,

the pledge is to the united states

for all 

and 

“this is where I am.”*

 

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

 

 

 

 

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