
Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel

my words are the mosquitoes singing in the forest my words are the leaves shoving themselves up from the branches.
Kawai Strong Washburn • Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
The sky is wheeling with other suns other histories already over.
Kawai Strong Washburn • Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
this animal had tasted joy and terror and time,
Kawai Strong Washburn • Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
I was the panting ribs of the graveyard owl from Kalihi that knew only green hunger sleep shit fly fly breathe hunger breed breed fly hunt breathe fly and red fight fight take fly fear, and also I was the old woman I’d treated on an earlier shift in Portland, who had collapsed on her walk to the park and her blue flashes of forty years waking at
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your father made me laugh until my cheeks prickled with heat and the last shadows of the trees were pointing long toward the horizon.