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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is an American poet of Palestinian, Jordanian, and Syrian heritage. Her first book of poems, Water & Salt, will be published by Red Hen Press this April. Her chapbook, Arab in Newsland, is the winner of the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize and will be published in March. Most recently, her poems have been published by journals including Barrow Street, Blackbird, Crab Creek Review, Diode, the Rumpus, and . They have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is an MFA candidate in Poetry at Rainier Writing Workshop and lives in Redmond, Washington with her family.
Miss Sahar Breaks Her Fast
Allahuma in you I believe
and for you
I have turned away
sustenance and pleasure.
Allahuma though water is scarce,
my veins are moist
and my heart beats
to the sound of your words.
Allahuma in the embrace
of your will
I am nourished, my forehead
caressing the earth you have made.
Allahuma guide me
when the earth you have made
is stolen from beneath my forehead
and the house where I pray
is leveled.
Allahuma let your will
manifest in water, let your will
be a river or a tender rain
or a truckload of gallons that passes the checkpoint.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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