Chris Abani's Positive Influence.
"Hands Washing Water" Even in the falling a train breaks for the light. The tunnel the darkness-never sweeter. The body is not real. Yet living. This living body. There is a child. The blessed coolness of water. And hands Chris Abani Chris Abani is an educated professional poet who uses the tools of poetry writing with artful intimacy. I am not a poet and so I am struggling to understand this poem and the book of the same name. The poet or narrator of "Hands Washing Water" is saying that the human body is as good and a blessing to water as water is to the human body which is made mostly of water. Human flesh and water are a part of one another. The body is as valuable of the rest of the creation. Free Verse is used because it allows the poet a somewhat less constrained, more malleable mode of poetic expression. This book of poetry by Abani is important because most of us have been taught that our flesh is sinful and we don't give ...