Why We Are Truly A Nation

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Because we rage inside
the old boundaries,
like a young girl leaving the Church,
scared of her parents.


Because we all dream of saving
the shaggy, dung-caked buffalo,
shielding the herd with our bodies.


Because grief unites us,
like the locked antlers of moose
who die on their knees in pairs.

© William Matthews