“break (vitalogy)” by Suheir Hammad

Posted January 8, 2009 by k_c_ in Inspiration

“break (vitalogy)”

all matter related
we connected

ana on corners
holy grams
ana incarcerated light

gaze me

ana gaza
you can’t see me

ana blood wa memory

it was all a dream
lion kissing me

ana harb
heart
ana har

ana wa ana
we related
woven
ultimate design
physical dream

please excuse my state of disappearance
been renovating structure
innovating space
hype earrings on

Suheir Hammad

From her bookBreaking Poems.

...here the poet figures herself as gaza. and as gaza she disappears...

Taken from the blog Body on the Line

Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian-American poet, author and political activist who was born on October 1973 in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York City when she was five years old. Her parents later moved to Staten Island.

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