Potential Titles: Mahtem Shiferraw

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Entered the gates without a sound - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

And refused to absolve me of my girlhood - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Filled the streets of my imagination - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Carrying with itself the portals to my other-selves - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Bearers of thorns and honey - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Always speaking without uttering a word - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Leading me to my many crucifixions - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Until I am readied for my own wanting - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

Sleep with a sharp blade clutched in my fists - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

And the gnawing has just begun - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beastly"

A name I do not recognize - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

A language that contains us all - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

Disassemble the sorrow of beginnings - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

We begin in silence - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

Ripe with longing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Beginnings"

The luxury of not having to worry - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

Crossing a border where my kind was not welcomed - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

Where suicide becomes the hopeful thing - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

I have run out of ways of telling him - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

Our mother's grief is too great to contain us - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

Split open and parts of you erupting - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

How many were complicit in our collective dying - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

Built on the blood and bones of our ancestors - Mahtem Shiferraw "Blood and Bones"

Our names nomenclatures of invisibility - Mahtem Shiferraw "Nomenclatures of Invisibility"

The sorrow that splits us in half - Mahtem Shiferraw "Nomenclatures of Invisibility"

The fear lodged deeply into our bones - Mahtem Shiferraw "Nomenclatures of Invisibility"

Even the baobab trees will split open at my command - Mahtem Shiferraw "We, Made of Bone"

In a foreign land where once I was made of bone - Mahtem Shiferraw "We, Made of Bone"


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