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Raven Leilani

Raven Leilani is a writer who lives in New York. Her debut novel, Luster, received the Dylan Thomas Prize and has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Photograph of a horse race. The frame is tight on four or five riders. The image is highly detailed and sweat is visible on the center horse's neck. The horse's muscles are also visibly strained.

Poetry The Filth issue

Eulogy for Racehorses

By Raven Leilani

My dead owe money and I too will die / in debt, arrested in the state of repayment / I have learned to call love.