Abstract
Milk Aracelis Girmay (bio) Keywords Aracelis, Girmay, poetry, geese, milk, nature, flowers which blazes all my brancheswhite with eels, all my nests, suddenly bloom,rattling with light or I am dirt, worn through by mice or the rivers suddenly again with fishes. A cup of cups that runneth over, a list of geese and hours through air from the eyes of my two darks laughing. Laughter that is milk. Count this among the happiness they say. Such small bells ring likehappiness inside us, suddened open. To be the window and the wind, the swallows and the muddened home. So needs the little animal, so flowers the bone. [End Page 229] Aracelis Girmay aracelis girmay is the author of the poetry collections Teeth, Kingdom Animalia, and the black maria. She curated the recently published How to Carry Water: Selected Poems of Lucille Clifton and is on the editorial board of the African Poetry Book Fund. Copyright © 2021 The Massachusetts Review, Inc.
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