Poet Zaynab Akbar

Zaynab Akbar

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Zaynab Akbar Smell Poems

  • 1.
    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.
    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
    ...
Total 2 Smell Poems by Zaynab Akbar

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Yellow 2 Skin 2 Smell 2 Black 2 Gold 1 Body 1 Milk 1 Strong 1 Absolutely 1 Bone 1

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Suppose, my dear, that you were I
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