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In her new notes, “I am Maria: My reflections and my commander are sorrow, recovery, and finding your way home.” (It will be published on the first of April by The Open Field), Maria Shrefar – the daughter of Kendez, the broadcast journalist, and the former first lady in California – use the hair to explore a woman in search of herself.
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I know you loved me
Beyond the shade
Behind words
Beyond the image of what is the love mother
It is supposed to look like
He behaves like
Speak like
Touch
there
I could not find anyone like you in my photo books
There are no mothers like you
He wears pants like you
It was like hair like you
Play football like you
Smoked cigar like you
However, I learned that you loved me
I knew you wanted me more than I gave
I knew you wanted me all that you had been forbidden
Beyond the shade, I know that you loved me
The way I smiled at me and chased me
The way I pushed me
I know you loved me
Do you know how much I loved you
Beyond the shade I was everything my country
I understand a lot about you today
You are also afraid
You are eager to see
You are eager to be detained
My heart breaks you
When I learn to learn that we cannot give what was not given to us
Whenever you grow up, you reduce
She allowed me to enter
My heart breaks my mother
But no one is allowed to enter
But no one carried it
No one relaxes her
No one told her that she was enough
Her journey was uncompromising
Her unbridled energy
I understand now and I am very sorry
Beyond the shade, I know that you loved me
Beyond the shade I love you
My dear life
I wanted to talk to you recently to tell you
You are not what you planned
You may not give a curse, but I thought you should know
You are not what you expected
I thought as long as I had a compass indicating the north
Everything will be fine
But I knew that my heart does not know the north
My life led me on a path written in ink inheritance
Longing for more spirit that I did not know yet
So we are here life
Without a compass without a map
Only my heart directs me forward
Wonder
Am I ready to be known in a new and deep way?
Am I strong enough to open my heart and reveal what lies
inside?
The life that says this is what you are everything
Let’s see how the universe responds
When I pull the curtain on my soul
Fragments from me
They are everywhere
Fragments for me
In the cabinet in the stairs on the ceiling, looks down
Fragments for me all over the Earth
They are in Chicago
In Maryland
In the hall in my school
In a sleep room
Where I stormed two
What about you
Have you crashed?
Are you fragmented?
In pieces as well
Is your life here on Earth
Heaven or hell
Do you diminish?
Between power and impotence
Nothing or desire for all of this
Do you stare in yourself separate from life?
When you close your eyes, do you pray to reduce the knife?
Tell me, tell me
Are you the coward hero player hearts
Do you know who you are or disappeared from your life?
Standing show yourself stop hiding here and there
Go to pick up the pieces
They are everywhere
It is chaos, it is a chaos
You are here and you are there
Don’t see
Do not care that you are everywhere
It is up to you
For you to collect your life
For you to hang
For you to return
Back to where it started
Go back to your birth
Go back if you can
Count to Hayyanis
Return to your room
counting
Tell him that you know and you no longer feel shame
Tell her that you love her and pray for her pain
Go back cutting
Make yourself all
Come back to shrapnel
They are the key to your soul
An excerpt from “Anna Maria”, written by Maria Shrefar, published by The Open Field, a imprint of Penguin Life, a section of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2025 by Maria Shrefar. All rights reserved. It is not permissible to reproduce any part of this excerpt without permission from the publisher.
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