Saddiq Dzukogi — Learning about Constellations
Poetry Unbound
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Padra Gautuma: The poem we're going to look at today from Sadiq Tzukogi is a poem that he wrote in the aftermath of his small daughter's death. She was just a few weeks after her first birthday. In this poem she doesn't speak much, but it feels like she comprehends the laws of physics and time and the universe. Today Baha is 12 years old, sits beside a flower vase, presses her thumb to the clay,. Her heart buds into a magnificent sun, waterfalls its warmth over her satin face.
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