more than just a horse with stripes
a fingerprint has one origin
just as a snowflake will not be just a flake of snow
just like you can’t enter the same river twice
just as this rose is not that rose
just as cancer squeezes its own sour way through the potholes of the body
it cannot be matched except by name
no two zebras are the same
each has an intricate life of pattern, a stripe
that can never be repeated and comes to life
anew, this is what hope looks like
no two hopes are the same or alike