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    This poem discusses how the speaker's past experiences are lodged in their bones, forming their identity. While others may have endured greater hardships, the traumas the speaker faced were formative for who they are. The bones are truly theirs alone, a part of them that cannot be replaced or altered by another. The speaker emphasizes that they will remain true to who their bones, and the experiences that shaped them, have made them.

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    This poem discusses how the speaker's past experiences are lodged in their bones, forming their identity. While others may have endured greater hardships, the traumas the speaker faced were formative for who they are. The bones are truly theirs alone, a part of them that cannot be replaced or altered by another. The speaker emphasizes that they will remain true to who their bones, and the experiences that shaped them, have made them.

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    POEM About The Small Claim of Bones

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    This poem discusses how the speaker's past experiences are lodged in their bones, forming their identity. While others may have endured greater hardships, the traumas the speaker faced were formative for who they are. The bones are truly theirs alone, a part of them that cannot be replaced or altered by another. The speaker emphasizes that they will remain true to who their bones, and the experiences that shaped them, have made them.

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    The Small Claim Of Bones

    What my body knows


    is not a lie it’s not
    a lie I tell you it is not
    it’s nothing short of truth
    and nothing larger
    my past lodges
    in my marrow and if
    I wanted a transplant
    There’d be no match
    Others’ sorrows dwarf
    my petty traumas still
    these bones are mine
    when they creak
    when they moan
    when they whine
    there’s only one thing
    I can claim these bones
    are mine I tell you
    they are mine and kind
    to abandon no thing
    that makes this pulse
    no one but me.

     By Cindy Williams Gutiérrez

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