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Injecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem, Nat Raha s invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry.Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Raha s apparitions (nines) in its charred golden minidress, ushering us into a space of grief and resistance, the embodiment and intimacy of queer, trans, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of niners, a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet, as well as an ode to beauty, collectivity, and tenderness which emerges from–and far surpasses–constraint.