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In Wavy Strands

In Wavy Strands Power crackles through my tangles. My hairbrush falls into three pieces when I run it through my hair since my new grays

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Aesthetic

Aesthetic She wants to be Cruella, disintegrating into a glamorous obsession, lost  but only slightly crazed. She hasn’t been abandoned in the woods and these

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Patienting

patienting it will never be an obsolete gerund/ living/ this whatever it is/ it’s breathing a run-on sentence far more than just labeling/ we are

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Strawberries

Strawberries When I asked you, how to say freedom in a Persian dialect from Qom, you laughed: “You have to taste the word, in chalk,

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

I will try to write a poem, though I am running out of time. Time waits for no one but God and the dead –

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The American Gate

     My English teacher, Mr. Jamir Ahmed said, “So you want to go to America! Is that right? You don’t even know how to