Written by
Asmara Malik

Asmara Malik can usually be found lurking at http://elmara.deviantart.com [link], where she has, to-date, been awarded six Daily Deviations in Literature. She was one of the eight winners of the LUMS Young Writers Workshop & Short Story Contest 2013. She was short-listed for the Matthew Rocca Poetry Award by Verandah, an Australian journal of art, design and literature. Her work has appeared in Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words (OUP, Pakistan), Papercuts, Poets & Artists, Sparkbright, Read This Magazine and Breadcrumb Scabs, among others.

The Everyday

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Dearest,

a zombie in your dreamscape, you shuffle
and you snore. It makes me chortle.

Our daughter opens one milky eye, irked
at the noise above her head. But,

dearest,
it is not this that keeps me from sleep—it is

the thought of never seeing you again.
Why must all that we love be taken from us?

Where does love go when the heart is still
and eyes, searching, find

nothing, and the mind, alone, conjures up
quiet ghosts of lives lived out here,

in the ordinary, where all is as it is,
beautiful and mundane.

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Volume 14

Home Is Not A Place - Spring 2015

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The Everyday