Hanif Abdurraqib — Moments of Shared Witnessing
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Accidentally Rolled Over My Neighbour's Peonies
I was so struck by just toward the end of that poem where you say, and just like that, we're talking about power. And somehow having the word power being high lighted so clearly in a poem, and in a poem with the word flowers in its title, iy think of flower power. I accidentally rolled over my neighbour's peonies. That's true. Ah, i fhenl it's true. At it's so particular in the when i read that, i thought, this isn't a metaphor. This is a fact. No, really, reallyRollingOverMyNeighbour’s Peonies: A Poem About Love By Si Allerbe...
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