Sunday, August 3, 2025
Poetry

Salama Wainaina | The Syntax of Haunting

The Syntax of Haunting Grandmother’s ghostIs horrified by how our name concludes the day—Incoherent&Tattered. I cannot hold her name as I used to;There is a stickiness...

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