There was a longing / in the carvings of the / knife my mother held / against the fruit. She / peels with quiet / permission.
Results for tag: Ayesha Raees
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October 23, 2018
May 17, 2018
These four writers will spend the next year writing fiction about Iraq beyond war, creative nonfiction on diasporic women’s silences around trauma, memoir about legacies of abuse and the Cultural Revolution, and poetry of displacement and loss.
March 20, 2018
The floor broke apart / the tasbeeh into ninety / nine beady reflections / and my mother is still / able to fake a surprise / when she can’t locate / them all.
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