Chris Abani has received the PEN USA Freedom to Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.


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Four Poems

by Chris Abani

Fruit

A full moon leaning on a skyscraper. The taste:
qat and sweets on a tropical afternoon.
The dog’s black tongue was more terrifying than its teeth.
The gravestone rising out of the puddle was more sinister
than the body we discovered as children swinging
in the summer hot orchard.

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