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  • The American Poetry Review

    FIVE POEMS

    Mar 01, 2022 5 minutes
    KAZIM ALI
    photo by Jesse Sutton-Hough

    Petrichor Lecture

    Hant I on the after noun wan
    rain pourn in this ember
    san diego hand over
    the reeding in hand then
    routes racing to say
    what fortunate when
    rain can say

    Petrichorous petrichorus
    lector on petra pale
    through rain in the desert
    does earth petrel rain
    prickling my skin in
    the mourn trickle
    december trails

    Year’s end petral withdrawal
    future’s end read
    in the haptic drift’s
    happening I’m umbral
    on board fated to fade
    in rain untravel untrammel
    uncastled rook

    Or king rooks sing petrachoral
    morning in Normal Heights
    rain on the ground or in air
    an air not raveling but in strands
    or points noted railing wren
    arrive rooks and wrens
    bend air in coarse weave and

    Waves the earth entersthrough rain and swears petricorepetrikouros pretty and soar the airclears and wavers the sun sayerairs and wayers the cours coeurcorps chorus kouros kaurquai queer quer core

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