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"The sound of dust being struck from his hands" - Poem oliverakhan 127 views This poem was published in Zaum volume 13 in 2009. I believe it was written while I was studying abroad in Syria. If you would like to see the text of this poem, you can...
"Empire" - Poem oliverakhan 219 views This poem was published in Gargoyle volume 54 in the Winter of 2009. I believe I wrote it during my final year at the University of Pittsburgh, 2004-2005. If you would ...
"Widest possible sphere" - Poem oliverakhan 73 views This poem was written when I was visiting and studying in Syria in the Fall of 2005. It was published on elevenelevenjournal.com in January 2009. http://www.elevenele...
"Man with Rope and Question" - Poem oliverakhan 68 views This poem was written perhaps in Winter 2005. It was published on elevenelevenjournal.com in January 2009. http://www.elevenelevenjournal.com/Poetry_Oliver_Abrahim_Kh...
[somewhere in the city my lost] - Poem oliverakhan 221 views This is the final poem of mine that was published on archipelago.org in the Summer of 2006. All of the poems published on Archipelago are from a manuscript written in Syria...
[here's to getting at the bones of it] - poem oliverakhan 141 views This is the 6th poem of mine that was published on archipelago.org in the Summer of 2006. All of the poems published on Archipelago are from a manuscript written in Syria t...
[slow my eyes pendulum of praise] - Poem oliverakhan 218 views This is the 5th in a series of poems that appeared on archipelago.org in the Summer of 2006. All of the poems published on Archipelago are from a manuscript written in Syr...
[teaching english:] - Poem oliverakhan 899 views This poem appeared on archipelago.org in the Summer of 2006. It was written while I was in Syria; it is the only poem that has been removed from the manuscript titled "The...
[those were scissors locked at the joint] - Poem oliverakhan 210 views The fourth of 6 poems of mine that appeared on Archipelago.org in the Summer of 2006. This poem was written while I was studying in Damascus, Syria in the Fall of 2005. I...
[and the birds flying in their constant] - Poem oliverakhan 179 views This is the second of 6 poems of mine that appeared on archipelago.org in the summer of 2006. It was written in the Fall of 2005 while I was in Damascus, and is part of a ...

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"What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow. / Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, / You cannot say, or guess, for you know only / A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, / And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, / And the dry stone no sound of water. Only / There is shadow under this red rock, / (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), / And I will show you something different from either / Your shadow at morning striding behind you / Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; / I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
The Wasteland, Part I. The Burial of the Dead by T. S. Eliot (1922)

"Poetry. I like to think of it as statements made on the way to the grave." Dylan Thomas (as quoted in Harvey Breit, The Writer Observed 233 (1956)).

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