Sanctificum by Chris Abani

Author:Chris Abani
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

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Every river is Jordan for the faithful.

They came to the holy mountain by my college.

They climbed for days in their white robes.

They looked like a flock of egrets

resting in the heat and green.

Can a new sky be born?

Nothing I tell you will slake your thirst.

But Pepsi at a baseball game comes close.

If I mourn for all the suffering in the world,

then I have only my ego to blame.

I mourn daily. How can I not?

Let there be love.

There are 20 strings in a Myanmar marionette.

There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.

There are 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria.

There are 100 petals on a blossom of

a Japanese Kikuzakura cherry tree.

Diwali lasts for only 5 days.

Then the lights dim and we forget.

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