Reviewed by Nikki Ummel Kaveh Akbar’s second collection of poetry, published by Graywolf Press, debuted in August of 2021. A modest 76 pages, Pilgrim
If someone brings a gin and tonic and forgets the gin, what is the melody of the missing? Absence assails us with the loudest
Balloons are in their element today the sky a perfect, fresh-mint shade of blue without a wisp of cloud. My sister sucks lemon juice
Gardenias sometimes, by happy accident, burst forth a second time, fall, late summer after a green rest, a spurt of botanical passion before sleep.