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Afaa Michael Weaver
Michael S. Weaver

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The Plum Flower Dance is organized according to Chinese philosophy.

Nonfiction
These Hands I Know
Finalist for the Multicultural Book Award
Poetry
Multitudes
"...Afaa Weaver is of the same vintage as Rita Dove... Multitudes announces Weaver's Brooks-like transformation from curator of a vital 'museum' to composer of revitalizing 'music'; the sounds of a tradition renewing itself."
--George Elliot Clarke, African American Review
Stations in a Dream
“[Weaver] ...is one of the most important poets of his generation.”


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Stations in a Dream



Lovers with Flowers

Can you contain my most intimate whisper,
settle it down after it has entered you,
make it a part of you and still cling
to my hand as gently as your eyes hold me?

Something must protect our weakness,
our mortality, and I choose the petal
and the leaf for their own transcience,
as life is emboldened by mortal fear.

In this light through this glass and wood,
I sleep confidently in your murmurs and dreams,
deaf to significance, delighting
in our petty island of flowers and silences.

You have turned my soul to blazing pith.



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