Four Dreams
tending to
locutions
of a one-eyed
parrot
milking
the moon
in the blink
of paroxysm
clasping
a mirror
in an honored
assembly
holding
a baritone
in a skein
of lies
Microcosm
we are emblematic
of time’s circularity
but extinguished daily
in rituals
Recollection
exposed
& christened
in an age
of sorrow
abundance
of hyaline
pockets
of grief
through
ashes & stones
we posit,
we swallow
cremating
the past
in a shared
dysphoria
Zaina Anwar is a Pakistani artist and poet currently based in Islamabad, Pakistan. She has been writing poetry for the last five to six years and has been published in multiple online magazines and an anthology. She has strong Sufi inclinations and her poetry naturally tends to lean toward the equally mystical genre of Surrealism. She maintains a website/blog called Indigenous Dialogues.
