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Volume 8


Forbidden - July 2011


Verse

Written by
Sana Tanveer Malik

Sana Tanveer Malik, a Lahori at heart, has (been) relocated to Minneapolis, MN to complete her Bachelors degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. When she is not working two jobs and taking classes at school, she likes to read, waste time on Facebook, and write a poem or two. She also likes to write about herself in the third person.

        
      
       
            
              

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strives to bisect

you and me

by the colors of passports,

broken-bottled peripheries,

daggered enmity,

fancied

and real,

like the spine

of a holy sutra

is fractured into two,

never to meld into one

except by havoc.

Yet cling onto the Rope

and cling fast,

never to let go,

so that one day

you are my angel

and I’m your houri

in the gardens that

hinder no love.

 

 

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