“The Children” by Dilruba Ahmed (poetry ’09)
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“The Children” by Dilruba Ahmed (poetry ’09), published by Four Way Review.
The Children
How each one is taken
with care from car
to school doorstep, each one
hand-in-hand with an adult.
How the mothers
and fathers kiss
their foreheads, first
pushing aside their bangs
or smoothing
a stray wisp. One
parent straightens
her daughter’s velvet
headband; another wipes
dried oatmeal
from his son’s pink lips.
[…continue reading “The Children” as well as two other poems at Four Way Review. You can also find another poem, “When the Time Comes,” at Blackbird.]