Saddiq Dzukogi — Learning about Constellations
Poetry Unbound
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Sadik Tukogi's Poem, Today Baha Is Not Dead
Sadik Tukhoke wrote most of the poems in this book in the first year after Baha died. The poem begins with the line, today Baha is not dead and then toward the end you hear an echo of that line: "Baha is notdead, she's walking her way into myth" In so many situations of grief despair faces us and that is absolutely a part of grief. Any experience of grief does something profound and very complicated to time.
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