where is your name, slave girl?<\/p>\n
you’ve gone missing<\/p>\n
taken from your family<\/p>\n
not remembered enough to even have a name<\/p>\n
purchased, war bounty from a raid<\/p>\n
attentive to your mistress<\/p>\n
who didn’t have a name either,<\/p>\n
wife of Naaman;<\/p>\n
through compassion you became blessing, slave girl<\/p>\n
a remnant of the colored cloak of another slave, your ancestor<\/p>\n
and you, slave girl with the missing name,<\/p>\n
a liberator for the one with the name, Naaman;<\/p>\n
what milk carton bears your image, your name?<\/p>\n
what mother searched for you?<\/p>\n
what was the smell of the pillow your father carried daily because you had last slept on it?<\/p>\n
where is the dust that still carries your name, your bone, your marrow?<\/p>\n
where is the book that your name is written so I can read it, slave girl, instead of this one marked Kings?<\/p>\n
I want the book named Slave Girl<\/p>\n
I want the book with your name gone missing<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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