Sweet Almond

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SWEET ALMOND / CHAMOMILE

praise be to the watchful eye
diviner
dawn child
gatherer of the first slivers of day
like handfuls of fresh grass
dewy with promise

how you ready the children
how you warm the farm hands with your smile
how the animals parade by your side
wisdom-purpose intertwined

few have patience for these relations
for the gaping mouth of oceans
deafening silence of volcanoes
or colonial distortions of man

for fear of the eruption
the tsunami drumfire
living dormant in the belly

but you
Oromia
Jamaica
Sudan
Cuba
the Islands and islands of red-brown people
eat the silence sloppy
stuff the shell with our namesongs
until everything is Black again
Black again
our trumpet sounds are melding
into a ruckus-anthem
fit for this dizzying faith

awakener
first fruit of spring
sweet almond
rise
bring your bitter twin
with cyanide at her pit
teach us divine violence
the generosity of chaos
of chaos
and to watch the small ones
the pebbles
like us
like seeds
to note the tremordance of our bodies
as the second coming thesecondcoming
the lovestampede
of a people
born whole.

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from S A L V E, released August 8, 2020

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NASRA Edmonton, Alberta

NASRA is a queer, Muslim, Oromo multidisciplinary artist living in Amiskwaciywaskahikan (Edmonton)/ Youth Poet Laureate of Edmonton 2017. Founder of Black Arts Matter. 2017 Recipient of the Mayor’s Emerging Artist award.NASRA’s chapbook A God Dance in Human Cloth was the co-recipient of the BP Nichols National Chapbook award in 2019. Their newly released EP “Salve” is their latest call to healing. ... more

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