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Searching for you in the cinders of cement - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Disintegrated into a sky burial of trade - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Tortured by a regime that looks like you - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Swallowed him in the gasp of television - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Descending in the blink of horror - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

A perpetual spiral down a landscape of eye - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Falling through the broken smoke of a fireman's net - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Falling down the chimney of swine and coriander - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Spinning toward the grinding mouth of denial - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Falling beneath the choke hold of profiling snipers - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Looking for her in the dusk flake of air - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

in the incidental pauses between words - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

Falling up the vertebrae of post-modernist architecture - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

A dowry traded to the North Star - Semaj Brown "Almost Majnun"

12 full moons folded into Spring - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Bees celebrated the return of dandelions - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

These brave plants grew just for me - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

In spite of a society that favored a monochromatic landscape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Bike riding across insecure cement - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Waving solidarity to each surviving sunburst - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Flourish souls with lemon drop hope - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Bare art of endurance and escape - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Floating with ephemeral intention - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Carrying the spirit of the weed - Semaj Brown "Black Dandelion"

Before the thought of future - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

Before the prayer of separation - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

Before sea crept from earth by moon beam - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

When motion was the only religion - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

Under an ignited sky of ocean - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

In the rich exchange of cyclic respiration - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

Into the soundless flight of flickering novae - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

A walk across a montage of darkness - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

For 66 trillion eons I search the unseen - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

You look to me through the glazed fever of forget - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"

Spiritual amnesia is surely my sorrow - Semaj Brown "Remember Re mem ber ing"


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