A review by catschristian
Calling a Wolf a Wolf by Kaveh Akbar

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

"Right now our moon looks like a pale cabbage rose. / Delam barat tang shodeh. / We are forever folding into the night. / Shab bekheir."

"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'm sorry. I'm sorry. / This may be me at my best."

"I always wanted to be a saint / but I thought I'd be one of the miserable / ones       sainted by pain       burnt alive inside / a brazen bull       instead I weep openly at obnoxious / beauty"