Recite!
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That the stars still will shine! That there is Islam in disorganized notebooks!
Look man someone should tell you You look crazy praying alone nosebone to the ground the sound of your own made-up prayer slipping from your lips
That gnats battle in the air like dueling armies of stars!
That two eyes shimmer over the rows of Fort Tryon Park over the roll of the Hudson river over miles and years to some small village between Beirut and Damascus to a flamehaired girl atop the Eiffel Tower!
That a sparrow hides amidst the tulips!
Look man that world was possible this one isn’t Compare and Contrast There is no proper way to pray to her pink miniskirt! [End Page 1233]
VISUAL ART
by
Y.Z. Kami
&
Athir Shayota [End Page 1234]
Saladin Ahmed, a native of Detroit, is a poet and fantasy fiction writer. He has published poems in The Brooklyn Review and Margie, as well as in such anthologies as Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry and Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry. His fiction has appeared in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Clockwork Phoenix 2, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This Brooklyn resident received an MFA in poetry from Brooklyn College. He has received writing fellowships from the University of Michigan and the Bronx Council on the Arts.
