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HAIKU: HAIKU #22

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haiku #22

a charred child smelling

smoke, you recoil from my touch

my life is burning

—kalamu ya salaam

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Kalamu ya Salaam

New Orleans writer, filmmaker and educator, Kalamu ya Salaam is the moderator of neo•griot, an information blog for black writers and supporters of our literature worldwide

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