you
straddle the world
between
my dreams
and
waking state
on
the radiator fallen
black
strands crisp
become
a dust that gives
you
form
incept
plastic sheets
and
stagnant shadows between
window
panes
the
lever is stuck
the
window half open
snow
flurries phase through
mesh
tears up a black spot
runs
in a vertical sliver
this
is where you enter
when
my body
convulses
my partner sleeps
on
unknowingly
return
to the night animals
bats
sometimes fly
this
part of town
my
partner picks almonds out
of
mixed nut packages
and
sprinkles
them
on the windowsill
wish
for squirrel
wish
for skunk
wish
for black pawed
raccoon
when
you are gone
i
wonder
did
you learn
the
forms of animals
Manahil Bandukwala is an artist, poet, and
writer. She uses experiences and observations to produce art with a loose and
carefree style. Her upbringing and culture greatly influences her poetry. Her
creative interests include painting, illustration, sculpture, and poetry.
Originally
from Karachi, Pakistan, she now resides in Ottawa, Canada. She studied art in
her O Levels and privately throughout her adolescence. Currently, she is an
undergraduate student in the department of English at Carleton University.
Her
work, both visual and written, has appeared in a number of literary magazines
across Canada, including Room
magazine, The Puritan,
Parentheses Art, ottawater, the Ottawa Arts Review, Coven Editions, carte blanche, and other
places. She was the 2019 winner of Room
magazine’s Emerging Writer Award. Her poem, “Pipe Rose,” was awarded second
place in the George Johnston Poetry Prize.
Manahil
is on the editorial team of In/Words
Magazine & Press, a small press literary and arts magazine run out of
Carleton University. She hosts the monthly reading series, promotes events and
news on social media, designs covers and layouts, and carries out numerous
other tasks for the magazine. She is also on the editorial board of Canthius,
a feminist literary magazine.
The
Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
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