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

Waste

by Afaa Michael Weaver (b. 1951)

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Everything that was young went quickly,

the way his eyes met mine as soon as we

woke together in a room outside Nanjing,

feeling as if all the things that were falling

would fall and make their thunder, leave

us with the challenge of being happy,

all the things that felt given when gifts

were not just surprises, but what we

knew, what we hoped to take with us

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