Marina Malak
Creative writing
ENG 1141
November 25th, 2020
My Poems:
Anodyne:
I love my body
Every part tells a story
I love all the arteries and the organs in between
The feet tell how many hours I worked
The mouth witnesses kisses and food
I love when it is salty and love it when it is sweet
My hair tells if it’s raining
My fingers are shaped like the moon
My heart beats keep me dancing and alive
My lungs breathe out the past and inhale fresh air
I love how my spleen floats, with my liver inside there.
I love all about my body, all the flaws and details.
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Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation:
There’s an angel for everything, or at least that’s what they say
Angels?, really? , I’m not sure.
Lucifer, Gabriel, and Michael. Who are those?
Have anyone seen them before? , because I know I have not
I have not even heard of them before
Maybe they only come to white people.
That will explain a lot
All I know is that I don’t
See anyone or feel anything
Maybe they’re just watching us
Maybe they’re just sitting up there
All I know is that for sure
They don’t benefit me or my people
And if you are one of us, you better hope they don’t hurt you
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A History of Domestication:
Send me a pigeon with a message.
That’s if you find any left.
What time is it, it’s hard to tell
It’s hot enough to bake.
Use your eyes and look at the sun.
I can’t see it, maybe it’s gone
At night I can’t sleep, maybe the sadness, maybe the heat
Maybe the bread baking in a volcano
But I know I dream of green at night
Only to wake up to red and grey
But I know I made the bread
That will keep me surviving for a month or a day
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Alli Warren Translates Five Books into Poems
I rewrite books in my language, poetry. I read then I write then I read what I wrote. The books can be read in a way you have never known before. I read to know my history, my anatomy, and my economy. I write to live and to educate you just like I’ve been educated. I read to be enlightened, to connect the dots. You can connect the stars in the sky too, you don’t have to read to do that. “The winner writes the history”; that’s what they say, but you can read and judge if it really happened this way. The way they say it happened; the way you were taught, that’s why I tell you to read, that’s why I’m a poet. You must read to sing the truth, or it will never be a song. I write my songs of the roots and not the surface fruits; because if the root is bad, you don’t eat the fruit. I search the history for myself; at least I want to know. So read the books and search them for biased racist thoughts.
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