The 2River View | 21.2 (Winter 2017) |
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Babo Kamel
he keeps dreaming life The milkman awakens from his past In the schoolyard, down the street, children After last night’s rain, autumn leaves Evening and the dream tires of itself What began with Chagall They were out of place, this explosion of roses in the swirl of blue town The roses were all wrong, blooms as huge as impossible promises Folks on one side of the street kept their distance On Tuesday, the roses blast open At first the children ran around trying to catch the petals on their tongues By Wednesday, some neighbors were begging for blue Babo Kamel is a winner of Lilith Magazine’s Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Alligator Juniper, The Greensboro Review, Juniper, and Rust + Moth, and other poems are forthcoming in Painted Pride Quarterly.
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