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Khadijah Queen

Khadijah Queen is a poet, memoirist, playwright, professor and a disabled veteran of the U.S. Navy. She grew up in Los Angeles. She received a PhD in English and literary arts from the University of Denver and an MFA

Undoing

by Khadijah Queen

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In winter traffic, fog of midday
shoves toward our machines—snow eclipses
the mountainscapes
I drive toward, keeping time against
the urge to quit moving. I refuse to not
know how not to, wrestling
out loud to music, as hovering me—automatic
engine, watching miles of sky on the fall—loves such
undoing, secretly, adding fuel to

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