Calling a Wolf a Wolf

by Kaveh Akbar

Regarding loss, I’m afraid to keep it in the story, worried what I might bring back to life,

Upon landing, the ground embraced me sadly, with the gentleness of someone delivering tragic news to a child.

would you rather have a day begin in silence and end in song or the opposite you can’t have both

God loves the hungry more than the full. Faith is a story about people totally unlike you building concrete walls around their beds.