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Who are we then?

Sudden Smells, Sudden Songs

Where does it all come from,
The sap of strangeness inside us,
The sudden flow of feeling — I love that song!—
That lighter blood, that second breath,
That something where in the darkness
A knob is turned.

Who are we then? In that moment
We are not who we were a second ago:

A quick smell of rosemary changes us, that fast.
We stand up, familiar to ourselves,

Then sit down strangers. We are
Two people. Maybe more.

—Alberto Rios

From A Small Story about the Sky, Copper Canyon Press, Copyright © 2015. Used by permission of The Permissions Company, LLC. Photo by Luca Volpe, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.