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Writings \/ Poetry: Wale Adebanwi<\/a><\/h3>
*Mogadishu Blues \r\n(For Zuleikha)\r\n\r\nBy Wale Adebanwi\r\n\r\n\u201cSoomaali been ma maahmaah do \u201d\r\n[Somalis don't say a false proverb] \u2013 a Somali proverb\r\nI \r\nHe bathes his soul in\r\nthe waters of her eyes.\r\nHe washes his sorrows in\r\nthe oceans of her dreams.\r\nHe takes...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Luca Xifona<\/a><\/h3>
Of Sonia \r\n            My heart-woman is Sonia, no other.\r\nHer mouth is sweet; her you-know-what is sweet;\r\nHer breast is sweetbread; her thighs are sweetmeat.\r\nShe is champion ivory, dreamy...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Stephen Brockwell<\/a><\/h3>
Biography of My Father, the Printer \r\nI swept, the day after my father died,\r\n\r\na thousand pounds of scrap\u2014plates, rods, wires, gears\u2014\r\nwith an industrial broom three feet wide.\r\nI didn\u2019t have the energy for tears.\r\n\r\nI hurled reams of 90lb cover stock...<\/div><\/div>\n
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Writings \/ Poetry: Yemi Soneye<\/a><\/h3>
Who Then Ever Will Bring Morning? \r\nAt 6 am God used the belfry.\r\nThe sweep, sonorous of angels,\r\nskinned off the blanket\r\nand opened my eyes for view\r\nthe window drew near.\r\n\r\nI found the street in vernal\r\ntrees, not one sunken\r\nas on mornings from the...<\/div><\/div>\n

Writings \/ Poetry: Nico Mara-McKay<\/a><\/h3>
Behind the buttercups \r\nBehind the buttercup bramble\r\nThe pines stood tall and straight\r\nThe crunch of cones underfoot\r\nYellow puffs of pollen in the spring\r\n\r\nWe climbed the trees sticky handed\r\nFragrant sap gummed bark and sweat\r\nClimbed with fierce...<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1724,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/229\/revisions\/2049"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtls.ca\/issue17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}