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<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nNo one living a snowed-in life
\ncan sleep without a blindfold.
\nLight is the lion that comes down to drink.<\/i>
\nI know tink and tank and tunk-a-tunk-tunk<\/i>
\nholds nearly the same sound as a bottle.
\nDrink and drank and drunk-a-drunk-drunk<\/i>,
\nlight is the lion that comes down.
\nThis song is for the wise man who avenges
\nby building his city in snow<\/i>.
\nFor his decorations in a nigger cemetery.
\nHow, with pipes of winter
\nlining his cognition, does someone learn
\nto bring a sentence to its knees?
\nWho is not more than his limitations?
\nWho is not the blood in a wine barrel
\nand the wine as well? I too, having lost faith
\nin language, have placed my faith in language.
\nThus, I have a capacity for love without
\nforgiveness. This song is for my foe,
\nthe clean-shaven, gray-suited, gray patron
\nof Hartford, the emperor of whiteness
\nblue as a body made of snow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nTerrance Hayes<\/a> won the 2010 National Book Award for poetry for his fourth collection, Lighthead<\/i><\/a>. Other poems in this collection include “The Golden Shovel<\/a>” (Poetry Daily<\/i>), “God Is an American<\/a>” (Guernica<\/i>), and “Carp Poem<\/a>” (Konundrum Engine<\/i>).<\/p>\n
Several other poems were published in Poetry<\/i>, including “Mystic Bounce<\/a>,” “Cocktails with Orpheus<\/a>,” and “New Folk<\/a>.” And you can find more at the Academy of American Poets website: “Lighthead’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a>,” plus audio recordings of Shakur<\/a> and “Liner Notes to an Imaginary Playlist<\/a>.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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