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Tribe

By Rosemary Daniell

A poem written after the Associated Writers Conference in Tampa, Florida, 2018.

We meet on 13th Street

in this city we’re not familiar with—

poets, novelists, memoirists, academics.

“So good to see you,” we say again and again

the air thick with ego, desire, aspiration

thousands upon thousands of us

the weird ones who spend—some would say, waste—

our lives putting words, ideas, truths in order.

Like cat or butterflies filling a vast field

we radiate, connect with joy

already thinking of next year in Portland—

sure for once of our purpose

and at last, with our own kind.