Potential Titles: Chris Abani

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An endless night, the universe, a curse - Chris Abani "Ash Wednesday"

At home with blood and death and loss - Chris Abani "Ash Wednesday"

The way flame curls from wood - Chris Abani "Ash Wednesday"

Curdled by water boiling over - Chris Abani "Ash Wednesday"

The erasure of things once alive - Chris Abani "Ash Wednesday"

A devastation no wind can lift - Chris Abani "Ash Wednesday"

Opens a hole into a soul's dereliction - Chris Abani "Flay"

The right word bores through stone - Chris Abani "Flay"

Sunlight takes no measure of what is - Chris Abani "Flay"

Punished by spice and the scent of cooking - Chris Abani "Flay"

The persistent aftertaste of a lost home - Chris Abani "Flay"

A summer breeze burns down to the water - Chris Abani "Flay"

In a language only the two of you speak - Chris Abani "Incantation"

As if this safety of the mind were virtue - Chris Abani "The New Religion"

In an unguarded moment of sun - Chris Abani "The New Religion"

Tempted by the sharp edge of a knife - Chris Abani "Poet of an Ordinary Heartbreak"

A gift is freely given and a gift is freely returned - Chris Abani "Renewal" [excerpt]

It all falls on the off beat - Chris Abani "Renewal" [excerpt]

Repairs with needle and ink, and the whisper of lineage - Chris Abani "Ritual Is Journey"

My heart is a knot burling a staff - Chris Abani "Ritual Is Journey"

Wisdom won blow by blow - Chris Abani "Ritual Is Journey"

As we unzip tracks in flashes of light - Chris Abani "Ritual Is Journey"

How easily the profound fritters away in words - Chris Abani "White Egret"


Poet's page at poets.org.


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