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Aracelis Girmay

Aracelis Girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria.

Articles

Poetry

Slowly, I shed the mind’s 
     black hive,
its small hairs & figures, 
     its sense,

& slowly I lose & lose . . .

Aracelis Girmay

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