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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Manahil Bandukwala is a Pakistani writer and artist. She is the author of two chapbooks, Paper Doll (Anstruther Press, 2019) and Pipe Rose (battleaxe press, 2018). She was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Poetry Prize, and won Room Magazine’s Emerging Writer Award in 2019. See her work on, or on Twitter @.
Also by Manahil Bandukwala:
Paper Doll
Pipe Rose
What we have in common is that we aren’t the main characters of our story, or Princess Jasmine and Esmeralda meet for tea
Poets Resist
Edited by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
December 12, 2019
Edited by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
December 12, 2019
The World Ends for Good This Time
First it was winter &
winter refused to end
the solstice came, then
the equinox, but days
did not cool, they did not
give precious extra minutes
of light. Just clouds
& clouds greyed sidewalks for months.
Then it was summer
& summer did not end. We celebrated
its stay but we should
not have. The leaves turned
yellow & that
should have been
our sign
but an extra day, an extra few
precious hours
at the end
of the world. We basked
in it as we marched
with our signs, sipped
iced coffee when we should
have wrapped
our hands up in wool. The summer
ends late but winter
comes early & this
is what we give, a snow-covered field.
The world ends in white
& solar flares. It is when
we do away with the in-betweens
the equilibriums
of red leaves & flower buds
of rain rain rain
find ourselves huddled together
in a corner café
on carpets & couches
find a way back
to the physicality
of each other
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
