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Recreation

I’m so thirsty
a sodden rag mildewing inside
propels me
down--
sajda:
new life
free of my teeming insides.
The dam
threatens at every
sad pluck of violin
I
gush
I
flood
I
roar
I
evaporate
even as I stand.
This veneer of skin barely
contains the ocean.

Recreation

I’m so thirsty
a sodden rag mildewing inside
propels me
down--
sajda:
new life
free of my teeming insides.
The dam
threatens at every
sad pluck of violin
I
gush
I
flood
I
roar
I
evaporate
even as I stand.
This veneer of skin barely
contains the ocean.

Sumayyah Waheed, Seattle

 
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