Magdelawit Tesfaye


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It begins with a trial:
 
a dream with poison 
(sitting with him, daytime,
surrounded).

Thin-drenched
tender as cutting

peeling toward the green 
toward escalate—
 
Hand in hand,
the problem.



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Even music
short text 
across the shore-like mind 

A man hesitates,
says something.

Besides that, what 
silence; another  

& being present, 
fighting

The voice continuing
then the coffee

Bird-intelligent
in the end.



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chrome fatigue
man from behind 
new
concern.      

below repetition 
grasp I speak
grasp I continue
 
body near brought
any word not out

*

crested & 
chrome thrown

recalled aperture

*

listening divided 
to limit your waiting

advocate speech:
of mud
close



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strange loving,
strange
                held together with feathers 

        limpid inside 
i want to tell you




Magdelawit Tesfaye is an Ethiopian-born poet and artist living in Washington state. Her poems  
have appeared in Prairie Schooner, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, and The Los Angeles Review, 
among others.
 
 

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