Poets/Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali

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we didn’t really speak …

Kazim Ali

A book led me to the particular performance of the cello suite …

Kazim Ali

I fear dispersal but the resounding really sounds may be full of echo …

Kazim Ali

What represses unhomes in the sound …

Kazim Ali

Good boy for know enow I no …

Kazim Ali

My father had a steel comb with which he would comb our hair. …

Kazim Ali

Know no name …

Kazim Ali

With thick strokes of ink the sky fills with rain. …

Kazim Ali

You wanted to be so hungry, you would break into branches, …

Kazim Ali

The books were all torn apart, sliced along the spines …

Kazim Ali

home flowers grew …

Kazim Ali

Waul fill forest trin nev aoul fleme …

Kazim Ali

How struck I was by that face, years ago, in the church mural: …

Kazim Ali

In the earthquake days I could not hear you over the din or it might have been …

Kazim Ali

No body is fixed in position no one can be known …

Kazim Ali

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