Purgatory Has an Address

By Romaine Washington

Purgatory Has an Address is a dream state woven of origin myths, it is the search for birth parents; and it is the sober reality of living in a beautiful, pungent, redlined neighborhood. Washington's collection of poems speaks to the powerful desire to belong and be in community. It is an homage to the rugged determination of tumbleweeds and an encouragement to keep asking questions even if the answers do not magically appear.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bamboo Dart Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781947240148

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Purgatory Has an Address

by

Romaine Washington

Bamboo Dart Press

www.bamboodartpress.com

LOS ANGELES   †   NEW YORK   †   LONDON   †   SYDNEY

Purgatory Has an Address by Romaine Washington

ISBN: 978-1-947240-13-1

eISBN: 978-1-947240-14-8

Copyright © 2021 Romaine Washington. All rights reserved.

First Printing 2021

Cover illustration and author photo by Marcus Muscato

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Dedicated to Marcus and Mitchell

Long Afternoon

I am floating with balance wishing

that one day

we will walk in the park again.

~Mitchell Washington

What’s Your Story?

avra kehdabra

mama said take those words 

go on upstairs 

see what you can make

the girl went up

came down 

with a wadded ball of poetry 

in her left eye 

mama said get that out your eye

sent her back upstairs

the girl came down 

with wadded balls

of poetry in both