June 2021 amendment: these were my true feelings at the time that I wrote this. I have since reflected, learned, and held myself to account for what I didn’t know then, and what I chose not to know then. You can read that truth here.
This is a dialogue poem, to be read across the page as one poem, then down the left and right columns as their own.
*The words in the left column are excerpts from facebook messages written to friends and family during the summer of 2014, during which, while working at Sally Test Pediatric Center in Eldoret, Kenya, I cared for and loved as my own child a four-year-old named Moses before he returned to an abusive home and I returned to the United States.
callie daniels-howell 
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