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Issue Fourteen

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In the mornings I peel off my sadness
& hang it up to dry. I walk throughout
the day with my organs out
as the mosquitos orbit my blood.
I watch a petal bloom into a skirt of pink
& think of how I waited for my first period
for years & the morning the red stain
rippled in the toilet. How I played football
with the boys in the school park
& let my moustache grow longer
than anyone in my class
& isn’t that a type of girlhood
too? In my sex dreams a penis swings
between my legs, a pendulum or clock
tower puncturing my days. I watch
myself destroy the bodies of others.
& my wetness blooms across the sheets.
Maybe this is why I wake up sad.
Longing for my other body only to rise,
drowned in an echo of its silhouette.
Mother, where are you? How would
you have taught me to be a woman?
A man? Can you help me? Each day
without you I pile questions
& whisper them to the soil,
your new body & the grass laughs
in my face. Sometimes I laugh
along & for a moment forget
I was talking to you. Sometimes
I let you go & my body is fully mine.
Fully alive, dancing, boy-girl
feet pounding into the earth.
Not the graveyard it pretends
to be. Sometimes, I come home full
brimming with the hours of the day.
The fault from my sudden joy,
my forgetting, glowing guilty on my skin.
I put my grief back on. I’m not used
to being happy. Like how I’m not used
to high-heeled shoes. Or too many rings.
But, please, know I am not complaining.
Don’t take from me my loneliness.
I promise, my small joy is not goodbye.
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Fatimah Asghar

Fatimah Asghar

About “Mother” by Fatimah Asghar

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"Mother" appears on "Issue Fourteen".

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