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for Fady Joudah


“By then doctors and poets//Would have found a cure for prayer” from After



you said that weekends were lonely


in a poem I once read


while watching a cauldron


bubble out toward the east


just before the sun


steals light from the wet sky


clouds fly out from Congress Street Bridge


you detailed muscles in a body


your language wounds like a ligature


tightening around my small heart


I write careful notes


I had never taken an anatomy lesson


smoke brews on the horizon like a concealed prayer


I wish I could ask you


if we can walk together from this


epoch to the next


like Darwish



forgetting to die






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Praisesong for the People

a project by Amanda Johnston 

2024 Texas State Poet Laureate 

This project is made possible with support from the Academy of American Poets, the Mellon Foundation, the Writers' League of Texas, and the Texas Commission on the Arts. 

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