This poem is taken from PN Review 240, Volume 44 Number 4, March - April 2018.
Calligraphies VI
After disaster
(again) in her small skylit
sublet, N. simmers
lentils while she reads a long
book about Ibn Arabi.
In prison they made
chess pieces out of stale bread.
She taught the women
to play. Their first champion was
an apolitical thief.
*
Political grief,
apolitical despair,
or it’s vice versa –
either way, insomnia.
Rapping on the neighbours’ door,
three in the morning –
...
(again) in her small skylit
sublet, N. simmers
lentils while she reads a long
book about Ibn Arabi.
In prison they made
chess pieces out of stale bread.
She taught the women
to play. Their first champion was
an apolitical thief.
*
Political grief,
apolitical despair,
or it’s vice versa –
either way, insomnia.
Rapping on the neighbours’ door,
three in the morning –
...
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