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    Swoon
    Swoon
    Swoon
    Ebook98 pages18 minutes

    Swoon

    By Akinfe Fatou

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    A beautiful collection of poetry with flares of avant-garde underpinnings and rich textures of romanticism. Swoon is a delightfully intriguing and appetizing read that exalts feminine power.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 31, 2012
    ISBN9781469746517
    Swoon
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    Akinfe Fatou

    Akinfe Fatou is a Poet, Activist, Collaborative Artist and Author of Once As Lovers. A literary virtuoso and soothsayer, her work has been recognized nationally as well as anthologized. Akinfe performs regularly and lives in New York. For more information on the Author, please visit www.akinfefatou.com.

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      Book preview

      Swoon - Akinfe Fatou

      Carmenère

      I am awakened by you

      Calling me out of my

      Human fabric to join yours

      In a euphoric

      Trance

      The soundtrack of

      Souls enfolded…

      Liquid moans

      A twin-flame

      To share your life-force

      With, past lives and in

      This…

      A lover to decide what

      We shall come back as

      Square of 5th‘s

      I kiss your blood

      And raise the flesh

      You left behind

      Remembering and

      Repeating your last

      Words

      With a weighted heart

      I yearn to feel your

      Pulse on mine

      Your fragrance swathes

      In my aura

      I tasted your skin

      Sake

      I want to

      Unclothe a different poem

      Every night, to swear by

      A page to make love to

      The prettiest homophones

      For awkward sentences

      Odd but romantic

      An erstwhile lover, reworked

      And evolving

      Into the… longed

      For and dreamed of

      Alas, Forgive

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