Sonnet I

To hold your breath for weeks, is to reverence

the ancestors who survived the middle

passage. And the ones whose souls were left in

 

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Brittany Spires

Brittany Spires is an emerging poet whose work will appear in the upcoming issue of Mikrokosmos journal. She lives in Wichita, Kansas with her husband and five children. She is a graduate of Wichita State University where she earned a degree in Psychology, with minors in Creative Writing, Sociology and Women’s Studies, and received the Tilford Diversity Certificate.