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Down Grosvenor…

June 15, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

These days on evenings when the quiet engulfs me when the grass sleeps, and the sky fades so softly I seem to remember – those frozen autumn mornings down by […]

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Into the garong we go

May 28, 2020by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

No veil too opaque, no whip too thin, to punish and wound the Petara within.   Whom our feeders fend away,  while excavating our soul, ridding our sin, purifying control. […]

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Worshipping her

December 21, 2019by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

When she stops kissing you, shatter the silverware by her feet let the sink in the kitchen overflow hide her medication between the cushions purchase a bag of twenty pounds […]

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Revisiting the meadow

September 22, 2019by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

I motioned up the hills familiar gravitational ellipses and eclipses, longingly pulling the familiar tulips towards me — my love, I want to come home now. The sunset had begun, […]

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the sunbird sings

June 21, 2019by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Seek it out late at night the trilling – of a loud melody. There never was a lovelier sunbird, emblazoned in all its glory. Late at night, the sunbird picks […]

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The Holiest Fashion Show

June 14, 2019by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Inspired by Sepia Fashion Show, Maya Angelou. Their noses flat, fingers stumpy,  and familiar black hair, shade-wise. Their tongues are short, eyebrows contort, as they rule above you, faith-wise. Their […]

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In maya’s strength

June 13, 2019by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

I imagine it must be difficult, to have a brain so vast, it accommodates for the likes of the Appalachian mountains, and all our oceans, amassed.   I imagine it […]

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nestled in the eternal cavern

October 29, 2018by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

There are gargantuan mountains inside your skull, cascading waterfalls in chaos, tumultuous oceans of darkest blue, different corners of rooms, curtains of a particular shade, dinner tables, your favourite cigarettes, […]

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Leaving Our Little Home

October 29, 2018by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

There exists a partition — a cheeky one, winking at you from the middle of the room. I avoid making eye-contact with it lest it engages me in a conversation […]

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Poetry

Ode to Ayahuasca (take it all)

April 25, 2018by zulaikhaishak Leave a comment

Feel it all in pulsating visions of speeding and bleeding bursts of vibrating technicolor, amidst the intensifying beats and djembe drums amongst the Curandero, through the euphoria and happiness, we […]

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