For weeks, for months,
I could taste him in the dusty air.
Do you know how it feels
to have your tongue shaped
from a dead man's name?
Suppose that grenade
hadn't fallen like jackfruit
from a heavy branch,
& Oliver walked in here
today, took a seat beside
Nancy, & began to talk


Autobiography of My Alter Ego (2002)

Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

For weeks, for months, I could taste him in the dusty air. Do you know how it feels to have your tongue shaped from a dead man's name? Suppose that...

For weeks, for months, I could taste him in the dusty air. Do you know how it feels to have your tongue shaped from a dead man's name? Suppose that...

For weeks, for months, I could taste him in the dusty air. Do you know how it feels to have your tongue shaped from a dead man's name? Suppose that...

For weeks, for months, I could taste him in the dusty air. Do you know how it feels to have your tongue shaped from a dead man's name? Suppose that...