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Tawanda Mulalu

Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of Nearness (2022) and Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die (2022). His poems appear or are forthcoming in Brittle Paper, Lana Turner, Lolwe, The New England Review, The Paris Review, A Public Space, and elsewhere.

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Frenzy

February 28, 2022
after Sylvia Plath and Władysław Podkowiński   Hey horse, hey friend,   I like chrysalises. We need more tenderness, not less. Emerging from a foreign field,   my neck in your arms. Pale arms, holding a black-berried set of eyes, holding me. I loved ...
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American Elegy

February 28, 2022
I know no music for how a country should end. I no longer want to be pretty for you. Not even for myself. If I must watch you burn while performing my own arias, then I will watch you burn with my throat. If I must sing another world to live, then my tongue arrives earlier than ...