Ursa Major (second draft)

By Dafna Hagans-Slezak

Photo by ashutosh nandeshwar on Unsplash

She’s on my mind, three decades later.

Even more now that I recognize

My own bold wounds and motivations.

Time lets me examine,

with the understanding

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that it is subversive.

Nothing is,

Nothing’s not,

Neither / nor

This

And

That.

This is a response to a Writers’ Digest PAD Chapbook exercises, found here https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-22.