Hera Naguib is a poet and teacher based in Lahore, Pakistan. She is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal,Spillway, diode, and elsewhere.
Illustration: Amina Rizwan
after Tarfia Faizullah
Here, by this tide of waste thatribbons black across empty fields, parched grass a girl gnawsand fills…