And just like that In dreams & broken realities We enter the threshold of adulthood Waving childhood goodbye Preserving the little child in

Still Life with Skull, Leeks, and Pitcher by Pablo Picasso (Assume all trigger warnings) Until the mo(u)ring flickers in an oil lamp again by Shailja Bahety The red silk light escapes the oil lamp and settles in the sky while the night shatters inside its glass and the dawn flies away with colours for yet another mo(u)ring. The world is what it doesn't seem to be. It is a pool ball on God's billiard table, who wears a linen maxi dress and is never drunk on prayers because she

Artwork by S.H. Raza Prayers are beautiful until they have no god to go to by Khatija Khan in families like mine, the first thing they teach you is to pray to raise your palms and ask what you want to wear your heart on your sleeve and call upon god to make a contract with the sky and dive into the ground for sujood and knit your forehead into the prayer mat, the way a fisherman's wife knits his death into his sweater i remember how my grandmother taught me how to pray she sa