“Love Poem Resisting the Neon Larvae of Headlines,” by Shadab Zeest Hashimi (Poetry ’09)

“Love Poem Resisting the Neon Larvae of Headlines,” a poem by alum Shadab Zeest Hashimi, was recently featured in The Missing Slate. Read an excerpt below:

 

Love Poem Resisting the Neon Larvae of Headlines

The world, a baby tied to dynamite,
a butterfly perforated with poison
arrows, burdened with deception in bones.
We rise as emissaries to God, our
bodies blue with reason, three quarters
of the time, the rest, inked with florets…

Read this poem in its entirety here: https://themissingslate.com/uncategorized/love-poem-resisting-the-neon-larvae-of-headlines/