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    The speaker is carefully untying knots around a package that was sent to them across an ocean by someone who tied things tightly and well. As they undo each knot, they are reminded of the sender's hands binding the parcel and of a time the sender's belt snapped against the speaker's skin. Though undoing what was done with love, the process is allowing the speaker to practice patience and thoroughness as they do not want to let this moment pass but see it as what binds them to the sender.

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    BREAKING THROUGH

    By Myrna Pena-Reyes
    Haltingly I undo the knots
    around your parcel that came this morning.
    A small box should require little labor,
    but youve always been thorough,
    tying things tight and well.
    The twine lengthens,
    curls beside the box.
    I see your fingers bind and pull,
    snapping the knots into place
    (once your belt snapped sharply against my skin).
    You hoped the package would hold its shape
    across 10,000 miles of ocean.
    Its not a brides superstition
    that leaves the scissors in the drawer.
    Unravelling what youve done with love
    I practice more than patience
    a kind of thoroughness
    I couldnt see before.
    I shall not let it pass.
    My father, this undoing is
    what binds us.

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