{"id":529,"date":"2021-05-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/2021\/05\/the-world-grows-blackthorn-walls\/"},"modified":"2021-05-14T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T22:00:00","slug":"the-world-grows-blackthorn-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/the-world-grows-blackthorn-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Grows Blackthorn Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a\n              class=\"\n                sqs-block-image-link              \"\n              href=\"http:\/\/kehindewiley.com\/\"          ><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/MrsSiddonsinspiredbyWilliamMorrisbyKehindeWileycopy.jpg\" alt=\"Painting by Kehinde Wiley, \"Mrs. Siddons\" with a blackthorn background inspired by William Morris (courtesy artist  Kehinde Wiley ).\" \/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><figcaption>\n<p>Painting by Kehinde Wiley, &#8220;Mrs. Siddons&#8221; with a blackthorn background inspired by William Morris (courtesy artist <a href=\"http:\/\/kehindewiley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kehinde Wiley<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><h4 >a poem by Sholeh Wolp\u00e9<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tall, stiff and spiny, <br \/>try to make it to the other side<br \/>and risk savage thorns. <\/p>\n<p>We who left home in our teens,&nbsp; <br \/>children who crossed boundaries and were torn <br \/>by its thousand serrated tongues, we <br \/>who bear scars that bloom and bloom <br \/>beneath healed skins,&nbsp; <br \/>                                who have we become? &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I ask myself: <br \/>                        is home my ghost? <br \/>Does it wear my underwear <br \/>folded neatly in the antique chest <br \/>of drawers I bought twenty years ago, <br \/>nest inside my blouse that hangs <br \/>from one metal hanger I&#8217;ve been meaning to discard? <br \/>Is it lost between these lines of books <br \/>shelved alphabetical in a language&nbsp; <br \/>I was not born to? Or here on the lip <br \/>of this chipped cup left behind <br \/>by my lover long gone?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I carry seeds in my mouth. Plant&nbsp; <br \/>turmeric, cardamom, and tiny&nbsp; <br \/>aromatic cucumbers in this garden.&nbsp; <br \/>Water them with rain I wring <br \/>from my grandmother&#8217;s songs. &nbsp;<br \/>They will grow, I know, against these blackthorn walls.&nbsp; <br \/>They can push through anything, uncut.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I left home at thirteen.&nbsp; <br \/>I hadn&#8217;t lived enough to know how <br \/>not to love.&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>Home was the Caspian Sea, the busy bazaars,&nbsp; <br \/>the aroma of kebab and rice, Friday&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>lunches, picnics by mountain streams.&nbsp; <br \/>                                         I never meant to stay away.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They said come back <br \/>and you will die.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Exile is a suitcase with a broken strap. <br \/>I fill up a hundred notebooks with scribbles,&nbsp;&nbsp; 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