"The class goes on a nature walk" by Birukti Tsige

MAY 2024

The class goes on a nature walk

Teach me how to feel moss when I’m thinking of dead children.

Laugh:
goosegrass.

Goldcrest
weighs,
laugh.

Three
paper
clips,
laugh.

How to feel moss when I’m thinking of dead children, teach me.

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5/11/2024

Birukti Tsige is an Ethiopian-American writer, born in Addis Ababa, residing in Massachusetts, and currently attending graduate school in Cambridge, England.

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