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Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

A twirl of cocoa nib and bergamot - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

An acre of semisweet tenor notes - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

And even make a sweet thing of the acrid - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

An ever ready synonym for Polaris - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Dive into the marrow of the marrow of a story - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Sing each woman into a symbol of some sort of ascension - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Who walks up the forever of a wooden staircase - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Who sweatily lament their subterranean homesick blues - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Aren't all these metaphors for reaching skyward? - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

A spirit pushes its way through the busted geometry - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Floating, floating, up to the North Star - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

If you see me praying in the living room - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Never order me a meal that is spelled with silent letters - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

The only way we will be able to gossip in peace - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Start speaking an imaginary language - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Whose bad luck or misfortune will be sitting on your head - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Buy what you can truly afford - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Like I laughed at my mother - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

And I will live long enough to forgive your folly - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Dip me whole into the sweet blood - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

About cutting hair & a scissor's song - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

A memory holding its own breath - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

I wear your black cursive on my chin - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

I wrap you around my wedding finger - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Watch you snap back until you yawn - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Dress you in the foam of apricot shampoo - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Spin you in my palm to wash out time - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

In the blue violet of dream's intermissions - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Climbing strands to each other's roots - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Searching for homes that we have already passed - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

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