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4.29 AVERAGE
4.29 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Content: ***
Length: ****
Writing: ****
From the ebook:
I'm becoming more of a vessel of memories than a person
It's a myth that love lives in the heart
it lives in the throat we push it out
when we speak
when we gasp we take a little for ourselves
*****
I am not a slow learner
I am a quick forgetter
such ereasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful I will name it quickly before it floats away
Length: ****
Writing: ****
From the ebook:
I'm becoming more of a vessel of memories than a person
It's a myth that love lives in the heart
it lives in the throat we push it out
when we speak
when we gasp we take a little for ourselves
*****
I am not a slow learner
I am a quick forgetter
such ereasing makes one voracious
if you teach me something beautiful I will name it quickly before it floats away
emotional
sad
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
I lack nothing I need
unless you count everything I want I’m meant
to be spreading tenderness over the earth like seeds
like worms instead I’ve been shoveling coal
into burning houses
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Despite reading this collection over a dozen times over, it is still what I reach for when I am in need. In need of tenderness, of haunting vulnerability, of being seen. Kaveh's poetry sits so well with me, I can't even really call this a review more than a raving. Over all this time, I'm still not quite sure what to say except that every time I pick up this collection, I am grateful I did. Kaveh transforms even the most mundane into meaningful fascination through vivid imagery as he navigates addiction, craving, God, and culture. Paired with his spiraling writing style, these poems read like evocation magic to me, stirring the most gentle feelings of yearning and sorrow. I am humbled and forever in awe by Kaveh's words.