“The Summer My Cousin Went Missing,” by Tariq Luthun (Poetry ’18)

“The Summer My Cousin Went Missing,” by Tariq Luthun, was recently published by the Michigan Quarterly Review. Read an excerpt below:

The Summer My Cousin Went Missing

“I should have asked how our khalto was holding
up, but I knew where she would be: her body

weary & unkind, buried in the day’s tasks; back
turned to the home she grew up in; seeds in the

farm’s soil, like miracles, sprouting as
she tends to them. Is this not always the case?…”

Find the rest of this poem here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2020/01/the-summer-my-cousin-went-missing/