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Kingdom Animalia

By: Aracelis Girmay

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Winner of the 2011 Isabella Gardner Poetry Award

The poems in this highly anticipated second book are elegiac poems, as concerned with honoring our dead as they are with praising the living. Through Aracelis Girmay’s lens, everything is animal: the sea, a jukebox, the desert. In these poems, everything possesses a system of desire, hunger, a set of teeth and language. These are poems about what is both difficult and beautiful about our time here on earth.

"Elegy"

What to do with this knowledge
that our living is not guaranteed?
 
Perhaps one day you touch the young branch
of something beautiful. & it grows & grows
despite your birthdays & the death certificate,
& it one day shades the heads of something beautiful
or makes itself useful to the nest. Walk out
of your house, then, believing in this.
Nothing else matters.
 
All above us is the touching
of strangers & parrots,
some of them human,
some of them not human.
 
Listen to me. I am telling you
a true thing. This is the only kingdom.
The kingdom of touching;
the touches of the disappearing, things.

Publication Date: September 20, 2011 
ISBN: 978-1-934414-62-0
© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011
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