01 Monday May 2017
I was very happy to be among the poets featured on WNYC radio for the National Poetry Month #NYcityverse challenge. You can listen to the 3-minute radio spot here.
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06 Friday Jan 2017
13 Friday Jun 2014
See the turtle dove?
She sits on the wire, happy,
drinking in the rain.
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29 Thursday May 2014
In gratitude and in memory. Farewell, Maya.
Red pencil on paper. In memory.
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09 Friday May 2014
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I was quiet, tall.
Go on, hit it.
A floozie of stars.
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08 Thursday May 2014
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When I was quite young,
They hit me over the head.
Can’t you see my stars?
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28 Monday Apr 2014
Don’t our demons look cute
In the daylight?
A plastic tiger, hippo, bear–
Each no bigger than a fingernail.
Someone else swallowed them.
Now they bobble in our blood,
Indestructible.
One day
A grandchild will cough up
A tiny panda,
Remnant of a forgotten war.
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12 Saturday Apr 2014
I overheard a man in rags croon in blooming tones
that overwhelmed the silver grey sky,
the silver grey gates,
the silver grey discs behind my eyes.
Digital photo of Acrylic on canvas. 1995.
(c) Safia Jama
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04 Friday Apr 2014
we face north / south / east
our backs to the west
Digital photo. (c) Safia Jama 2014
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26 Wednesday Mar 2014
