A Daughter is a Colony
a territory, a progeny
a spitting image
like Athena sprung
from her father's head:
chip off the old block,
issue and spawn;
a namesake, a wishbone--
loyalist and traitor--
a native, an other,
a subject, a study,
a history, a half blood,
a continent dark and strange.
-Natasha Trethewey
Scarlett, age 8
8 years ago
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