Zaynab Akbar Black Poems
- 1. If Home Was A Smell
If home was a smell
It would smell like aftershave and peanut butter and jam
It would smell like
Spices, sweet and salty; taste buds ringing
... - 2. Gaiety In A Graveyard
My heart was a graveyard before you came
Your arrival was violently gentle
So aggressively you made my barren land your own;
You took my dead trees and breathed life into them as you did me
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