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    • Lines

    Poetry by Kwame Dawes

    By Kwame Dawes | Posted: August 02, 2005

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    Lines

    White lines
    stretched on black
    they wait in silence;
    it is pre-dawn.
    Above, the storm gathers;
    this is a nightmare
    drawn in fingers
    stained with charcoal,
    smudging away the flames.
    They return stark
    the white of the page
    resisting the brush of dark.

    White flames lick;
    the village is eaten.

    "Lines" is from Requiem, Kwame Dawes' 5th publication.

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