a taxi driver tells me<\/p>\n
the warehouse where he sleeps<\/p>\n
smells of doughnut fried with olive oil<\/p>\n
his wife gave him a grey blanket<\/p>\n
and a broken mirror<\/p>\n
from where he sees every passenger\u00a0\u00a0 as a gerenuk<\/p>\n
this is how i know it isn\u2019t a dream \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my shadows<\/p>\n
are a reflection of germander\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from a pool<\/p>\n
he says the best gift he sends home\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is fire extinguisher<\/p>\n
we have this in common\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 no one believes we should lead<\/p>\n
the prayers in a borrowed tongue<\/p>\n
we say ka<\/em> when we meant kha<\/em> from the epiglottis<\/p>\n everything has it edges, the edges of the earth are buried in water<\/p>\n i tell him square is the shape of freedom<\/p>\n but the driver\u00a0 thinks it\u2019s a circle \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and it depends<\/p>\n on how far you are from the center<\/p>\n i followed him to the space where he lives<\/p>\n i saw\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 how the sky<\/p>\n blankets the moon light \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 when the sun is up<\/p>\n his children make cotton candy off their mother\u2019s gown.<\/p>\n a taxi driver tells me the warehouse where he sleeps smells of doughnut fried with olive oil his wife gave him a grey blanket and a broken mirror from where he sees every passenger\u00a0\u00a0 as a gerenuk this is how i know it isn\u2019t a dream \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my shadows are a reflection of germander\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[54],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3En","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14280,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14035\/revisions\/14280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}HUSSAIN AHMED<\/a><\/h6>\n
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