Magnitude and Bond Cortney Lamar Charleston     after Gwendolyn Brooks that which is betwixt us of the lampooned lips and noses indissoluble as blood impassioned by a serene swatch of sky— envy of the blessing of birds       and      the divine shadow cast to provide protective canvas for our bones of calcified light the chains that wore us in the fashion of diamond-studded pendants and       the names that the ocean omitted from history with a wave envy of the privilege of birds       and       the low-hung cumulus carried in baskets through the blistering heat by blistered hands the wade into waters as stoic as windows during sudden [...]