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Issue 8: Connect & Sustain
At this time when we are witnessing ruthless generational destruction. Rowayat affirms that the sanctity of life means…
Statements
As artists, writers, poets, translators, and humans, the events across our shared globe have given us pause for…
Mother Sun
I skulk away from the sun, that early morning predatorstalking me from the otherside of the faded garden…
This is what your life has become
‘How are you?’ Whenever someone asks you this question, you assume they care and truly want to know.…
Ars Poetica
Poem is story is songa body, a vesselfor fluid pathos.Hear me o hear meas you shelteryour own bell-tone,…
Blue
A whining haunted the halls and rooms. It came from a bread oven, a stone-grey contraption as big…
Metamorphosis
It’s not for nothing that I talk about plants all the time.Green pot-bellied bottle of wine,raw wood hissing…
Accept the Moon
air pushing passed wind from the Hasidims’ undulating chants rising with the reddened sky’s lament grieving the loss…
Self-portrait with a fistfight on memory lane and Other Poems
To be a refugee is to seek shelter from handsthat stand on triggers, from bullets that ripour skins,…
The Aftershock
1 Breathless, Sabrina snaps out of her sleep, struggling to pluck her head out of the pillow. She…