Samiya Bashir’s work has recently appeared in Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Cura, The Rumpus, Callaloo, and Encyclopedia F–K (vol. 2). Her most recent book of poems, Gospel, was a finalist for both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and, along with her first collection, Where the Apple Falls, the Lambda Literary Award.
White Body Radiation
Every day adjustments
before give upbefore make do
start where a clothespin clips a nose and breath is held until –
What is a thing of beautyif it isn’t us?
And if a body i…
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