Anna Teresa Slater
Realignment

I am
echoes
translated
into skin and sheathed
in necessity, breathing in.

I hunger for my native vibrations, synchronized
with earthwide home, bouncing off sky, precipice, and falls —where I used to be all, where once
I was infinite waves, starlight breath before the fall

onto this side, into this fold
—an Eden in dust
chains and voice,
freedom
and
must.