<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Invocation for the Disappeared in a Time of War</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 26px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">I bring him back this morning, the baker, </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">with his smell of yeast, with the rise and fall </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">of his hands creating loaves.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 26px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">The teacher I bring back with her stacks of papers, </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">the freshly written stories of her students, </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">her yellow pencils in the alabaster cup. </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 26px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">I bring back the newborn twins who disappeared </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">from their mother’s arms, their hands the size </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">of hummingbirds, their twin smiles. I lift them over</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">the arch of war and settle them in their woven swing.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 26px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">I bring back the grandmothers and grandfathers</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">humming their ancestor songs, scattering stories </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">of life and love, until all of us are together once again </p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">in this house we all share.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 26px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-width: normal; font-size: 22px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Devreaux Baker</p></div></body></html>