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I had no language for what was passing through me. - Meena Alexander
Happy birthday to Indian writer and poet Meena Alexander (February 17, 1951), author of "Quickly Changing River" (2008) et al.
What use is poetry, you ask? We have poetry so we do not die of history. (Meena Alexander, 'Question Time')
"Softly my soul, softly, o so softly," - Meena Alexander, from Quickly Changing River: Poems; Softly My Soul,
She reaches out her hand, plucks the boy s beating heart, and, weeping, eats it. Meena Alexander