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Another poem that is
also leaning into that.

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How do we heal?

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And I feel like how we heal
is in spaces like this.

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And this poem is called
About Standing (in Kinship).

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We all have the
same little bones

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in our feet, 26 with funny
names like navicular.

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Together they build
something strong.

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Our foot arch a
pyramid holding us up.

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These bones don't get
casts when they break.

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We tape them one phalange
to its neighbor for support.

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Other things, like
sorrow, work that way too.

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Find healing in the
leaning, in the closeness.

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Our feet have one quarter of
all the bones in our body.

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Maybe we should give more
honor to feet and to all

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the tiny but blessed
cogs in the world--

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communities, the forgotten
architecture of friendship.

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[APPLAUSE]

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