QUAGMIRES PLACID AND PRODIGIOUS
“Under paperweights, lots of paperweights
Prepare to perish, O thoughtless courgette”
The auto-poems glide without skates
In the ice-rink of the fancy, and let
Their pearls and perils alike freely roam
Once fathomless and human worlds of words.
We wonder: do these e-quagmires hold loam
Rich enough to entice whole flocks of birds?
Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, a teacher of French as a foreign language and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Petrichor, Remembered Arts, Rigorous, Lunate, With Painted Words, The Dawntreader and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.
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