Shadab Zeest Hashmi (poetry, ’09): Shadab’s poem “Betrayals” recently appeared in the San Diego Free Press.
Betrayals
Who stepped on my wings
my tea-stained
dog-eared wings
when I was climbing up the library ladder?Who trapped the dove
when it rode the fox?The fox runs through the forest
like a red bullet
belly full of lies
in fine print …[Keep Reading]…
Shadab is the author of the poetry collection Baker of Tarifa (2012, Poetic Matrix).