Afaa Michael Weaver

Afaa M. Weaver (尉雅風) is a poet, playwright, short fiction and translator who has also worked as an editor and freelance journalist. He has published fifteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Spirit

Goodness

by Afaa Michael Weaver (b. 1951)

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for Renee Nicole Good

1988–2026

The fall is the crashing, a sudden brightness,

call it a snapping twig on a broken tree,

call it the never fulfilled promises of freedom

of returning what was stolen.

Popping is what I remember from being trained

in subzero mid-winter, boy soldier boy

studying the sickness of projectiles sent into flesh,

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