More Nobler (a poem)

More Nobler

I used to kick my mother.  

Don’t tell me you were 

nobler in the womb. 

I used to imitate the moon 

phased round dark light 

all through my gestation.  

In fluid floating and 

sprouting struck out  

at poor Ma, she so like

a Greek, bearing.

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by Sarah Sarai.  

Book Release Party for Sarah Sarai's Geographies of Soul and Taffeta

Join me for the release party for Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, Sunday, May 1, 2016, 5 to 7 p.m., Zinc Bar, 82 West Third Street, New York, New York. 

Guest Readers: Jane Ormerod, publisher (great weather for MEDIA) and poet; Jee Leong Koh, publisher and poet (Financial Times best book 2015). & Tony Dohr - series host!

Jane Ormerod, a knockout, as always

Jee Leong Koh, dashing of demeanor

Tony Dohr, Zinc Bar series host & fan of the six-legged

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New book: GEOGRAPHIES OF SOUL and TAFFETA by Sarah Sarai (me) #poetry

Here is a photo of my new book, Geographies of Soul and Taffeta, hard at work and ready to be of help. Geographies is published by the wonderful Indolent Books, a new publishing venture of wonderful poet Michael Broder.

Geographies at artist Chrisopher D'Amanda's work space.

To order a copy, please visit Indolent Books. Click!