Welcome
To our language.
Taste
the sauce
With spicy melted
Butter,
Berbere pepper
And sea salt.
The bones are big
Not only for the flavor.
Take them
Like communion.
(English translation by Charles Cantalupo)
Against All Odds — Eritrean Millennium Poems by Reesom Haile
By Bob Holman & Margery Snyder, About.com
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