11\/<\/p>\n
11\/<\/p>\n
When I was sixteen, my math teacher slipped me clues during tests
\n\u201cKa-hi-li, calme toi\u201d, he\u2019d say,
\nadding an extra syllable to my name
\nThat math was an abstraction<\/p>\n
It was another eight years before I got my driver\u2019s license
\nThe first time I drove the car alone
\nI swung it wide in my parent\u2019s drive
\nand put a pole-shaped dent in the side door<\/p>\n
It was a green 1992 mustang
\nWhen my gramma bought it, I was one,
\nwearing the clothes my niece wears now:
\ncute waving frills of pink striped cotton. <\/p>\n
She was born seven months ago, \u2028weighing less than seven pounds
\nfive months before you asked me to marry you,
\nand flew to a three day job somewhere in middle America<\/p>\n
two days before they closed
\nthe world\u2019s longest continuous unguarded border, <\/p>\n
three and a half months ago now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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