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Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis,...
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FURTHER READING
Poems about Stealing
After
by T. R. Hummer
Against Pleasure
by Robin Becker
America
by Claude McKay
Cahoots
by Carl Sandburg
Learning to Read
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Museum Guard
by David Hernandez
Some People
by Wislawa Szymborska
Stealing The Scream
by Monica Youn
The Not-Yet Child
by Joshua Weiner
Poems about Voice
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
If My Voice Is Not Reaching You
by Afzal Ahmed Syed
Lift Every Voice and Sing
by James Weldon Johnson
Meeting at Night
by Robert Browning
On Silence
by R. Zamora Linmark
Silences
by John Montague
Speedway
by Cedar Sigo
The Keeper's Voice
by Mike Carson
The Little Mute Boy
by Federico García Lorca
The Voice
by Thomas Hardy
Time
by Chris Martin
Voices
by Sharon Olds
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The Man Whose Voice Has Been Taken From His Throat

 
by Naomi Shihab Nye

remains all supple hands and gesture

skin of language
fusing its finest seam

in fluent light
with a raised finger

dance of lips
each sentence complete

he speaks to the shadow
of leaves

strung tissue paper
snipped into delicate flags

on which side of the conversation
did anyone begin?

wearing two skins
the brilliant question mark of Mexico
stands on its head
like an answer






From Red Suitcase. Copyright © 1994 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Published by BOA Editions, Ltd. Used by permission of the publisher.
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