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“I, too, follow toward where I am forever returning— Her.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.”
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
― Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera
“and yes, it is spring, if you can’t tell
from the words my mind makes
of the world, and everything
makes me mildly or more
hungry”
― Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
from the words my mind makes
of the world, and everything
makes me mildly or more
hungry”
― Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
“The rain will eventually come, or not. Until then, we touch our bodies like wounds— the war never ended and somehow begins again.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
“I am light now, or on the side of light—: light-head, light-trophied. Light-wracked and light-gone. The sweet maize in fluorescence—: an eruption of light, or its feast, from the stalk of my lover’s throat. And I, light-eater, light-loving.”
― Postcolonial Love Poem
― Postcolonial Love Poem
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