schwader

AMAZE

Ann K Schwader

For Nadia

Petals
like poet's tongues
born in a hard season
drift across thresholds of silence,
dark red.

(Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet,
b. 1980. Beaten to death, 2005)

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