POET OF THE WEEK
Akua Kariamu
Week of April 24
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Watershed
The pain of the past
Visits me in my faucet
I respect my earth.
Watershed
The pain of the past
Visits me in my faucet
I respect my earth.
Akua Kariamu 41, Seattle
FIRST POEM I was about five or six. I wrote it for my father for his birthday. I may still have it.
WRITING LIKE WATER My writing style is like large ripples of water disturbed by occasional rocks and flocks of duck and geese.
DEAREST BODY OF WATER Jones Beach, I grew up in New York.
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