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Quietly, to You I Wander

April 1, 2025by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Beneath Vaux & Mould carvings, a most puzzling version, enough for me to wish that time could bend, just once, a little longer for us,  so we may squeeze just […]

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Once Upon a Kétszemélyes Tábor

February 27, 2025by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

The world has turned many times since camp ended, and the raindrops on my shoes, long dried to oblivion— I press my tongue against the roof of my mouth chewing […]

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In my bowl, in my soup

March 15, 2023by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

So leisurely, I mount — by the rims of my bowl, bent a perfect dive into the broth. . In my bowl, in my soup, my arms reach for backstrokes. […]

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kürbisrisotto

September 5, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

In small hill folds, whistling melodies of wind and farmer nestles a timid pumpkin seed in the helm spouting fast a giant fruit in explosive joy anchored paths and rooted […]

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Nayla

May 19, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

She’s two years old now, asleep at last for the afternoon. These days, she’s at peace with powdered milk, negotiating like a grown woman “yes, now, more, no, yes” — […]

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összefoglaló

May 19, 2022by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

All afternoon I sat across you. My mind snowing delicately, peering your glistening orbs, blue. I’m thinking of glaciers, sharp frosts ballerinas imported from Boyarsky’s Mariinsky Theatre, salchow ethereally across […]

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Of Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the common

February 21, 2021by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Gilgamesh and Enkidu Slaying Humbaba by Wael Tarabieh, 1996. If the dead skin from our hands are sifted, will we unearth DNA that paint Stalin, Castro, Khan, Hiroshima, Rwanda, self-serving […]

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In God’s hand

December 16, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

It’s all in God’s hand and this has always been a vanishing occupation. Some days He falls asleep in front of the TV some days He gets carried away with reading […]

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Stay for a Minute

November 5, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Come a little bit closer, in this air, pungent of funk, groove, even gospel engulfing tonal fusion and the notes of the piano rise and fall we can dream this […]

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On my Papers

November 5, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

In my still library, I allow fate to be a lost elephant that needs the mother of all water walking haphazardly on the x-axis, and I allow telepathy be a […]

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