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This one is in Rosa's voice--

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very first poem in the book--

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and it's about
feeling misunderstood.

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Have you ever felt
misunderstood?

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Yeah.

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"Some people call
me a child witch,

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but I'm just a girl who likes
to watch the hands of the women

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as they gather wild herbs
and flowers to heal the sick.

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I am learning the names of the
cures, and how much to use,

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and which part of the plant--

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petal or stem, root,
leaf, pollen, nectar.

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Sometimes I feel like
a bee making honey--

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a bee feared by all,
even though the wild bees

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of these mountains in Cuba
are stingless, harmless,

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the source of nothing
but sweet golden food."

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