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This appears in a pre-2010 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine. Saddle-stitched issues are no longer printed, but you can requesting it “re-released” through amazon sale as a 6" x 9" ISBN# book! Email us for re-release to order.

Before the Break of Day

Aya Ibrahim

I must say I don’t have the power or the dignity
To cut a paper each night at twelve midnight sharp
A paper can be harder than it seems to the gentle eye
Just like a hand can be weaker than it should be
Or break a phrase into several words, words into several
Letters, letters into several misunderstood shapes
But sometimes I have the mouth to devour a thousand
Animals, a thousand times more my size, and churn
A thousand seashells without breaking one golden tooth

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