How She Found Us                                                     after Diana Khoi Nguyen

This is how she found us
the past draped about us like a cloak

Woven unreliable memories
Tales from children who now are grown

Bound too tight to breathe
shielded from our dreams

(Prompt: Write a poem inspired by (and/or using this line) from the poem Selkie Weaning Young (Redux) by Diana Khoi Nguyen.  “This is how she found us/ the past draped about us like a cloak”)