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Elegy to be read from right to left

—Fatima Malik

Elegy to be read from right to left

           after Marwa Helal


was he that say to how

death of afraid not

dying of but

*sickness big the of

inside the from hollows that

one leaves that

husk a

ب like

without in as

sounds it though even

expansive


afraid not was who father my

anything of

terrified was

losing of

everything

health his first

savings their house the then

0 to reduce to how but

bigger was that life a

things the than

collected it

carapace the than

it held that


//


بڑی بیماری

About

FATIMA MALIK is a Pakistani-American poet with work in The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and other journals. Through her poems, she continues to grapple with grief in the aftermath of her father’s death and tries to stay in conversation with her heritage.

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