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The propellers undress the sea;
the pattern of foam like a broken zip
opening where the bow cuts the wave
and closing in its wake.

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Let us gather around the legend of faith,
truth of our lives in this crude foment of days.
We are so afraid to look to the sky, so cowed, we whisper
of straight paths while a nation grows fat on its own flesh.

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We have come this way before, I am certain,
but the landmarks are not exactly what they were.

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We carve out our generations in stained ivory, totems. Oh, to be able to plant a tree that bears fruit, like fat ancestors that tell their story.

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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Kwame Dawes

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Born: July 28, 1962 (age 63)
Bio: Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is an Emmy award-winning poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.
Known for:
  1. Hope's Hospice: And Other Poems (2009)
  2. Progeny of Air (1994)
  3. Gomer's Song (2007)
  4. Natural mysticism (1999)

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