\nGlass bangles (Urdu: \u0686\u0648\u0691\u06cc\u0627\u06ba ) are ornaments worn by South Asian women in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India.
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\nfreshly picked apple
\nsliced in half\u2013
\na railroad worm
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\ncourtesan unfolds a fan\u2014
\nbird of paradise
\non display
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\nrotten tomatoes
\nafternoon sun
\ncovered by clouds
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\ngiant silk moth \u2013
\nhidden
\nin the night
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\nbetween the long legs
\nof a sandhill crane \u2013
\na newly hatched colt
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\nfallen off a kathal tree \u2013
\nthe spiky jackfruit
\nsoftens
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\nafter watering
\nthe lifeless stone
\nsprouts a yellow flower
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\nscared sea turtle \u2013
\nunable to curl
\ninto a shell
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\nvaginal discharge \u2013
\nolive oil from fish
\nsoaks my paper towel
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\npinnate prairie :
\nyellow petals \u2013
\nthen an erect cone
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\ncandy floss at the zoo \u2014
\na greater flamingo
\nstands on one leg
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\nunhooking the barb
\nfrom the swollen lip
\nof a struggling carp
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\nAnum Sattar is a senior studying English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, USA. Her poems have been published the American Journal of Poetry (Margie,) Triggerfish Critical Review, Blithe Spirit, The Mythic Circle, HOBART, SurVision Magazine, Literary Juice, Coal City Review, Crack the Spine, Lowestoft Chronicle, Taj Mahal Review, FIVE 2 ONE: An Art and Literary Journal, The Linnet’s Wings, Ragazine, Better than Starbucks! The Florida Review, Grey Sparrow Press, Oddball Magazine, Artifact Nouveau, Off the Coast, Strange POEtry, Between These Shores Literary & Arts Annual, Conceit Magazine, A New Ulster, The Cannon’s Mouth, The Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poydras Review, The Cadaverine, Verbalart: A Global Journal Devoted to Poets & Poetry, The Wayne Literary Journal, The Ibis Head Review, Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems, Poets Bridge, Deltona Howl and Tipton Poetry Journal. She won the first Grace Prize in Poetry and third Vonna Hicks Award at the college. Whenever possible, she reads out her work at Brooklyn Poets, Spoonbill and Sugartown Bookstore, Forest Hills Library in New York City and the Cuyahoga Valley Art Center at Cuyahoga Falls, OH. And she was recently interviewed at Radio Free Brooklyn.
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