Poem: Excerpt from Aisha Sasha John’s Thou

Aisha Sasha John

Contributed to The Globe and Mail

Published April 18, 2014

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To make a work is to sit with your irrelevance

and confront your importance.

I mean, the swallows just fly.

And the papaya sweats when cut.

With the pad of my right index finger

I smooth my left brow.

It's so easy and feels

feels so physical.

The taste of plain yogurt

which has turned, slightly.

I knew I would change physically.

– Aisha Sasha John

To make a work is to sit with your irrelevance is excerpted from Aisha Sasha John's book Thou, published this month by BookThug.