Issue 19: Little Changes
Abbas, Diya
By Diya Abbas

she/her

Verbicide • Autopoiesis

i name a thing & occupy its territory. i hear / glory, is to kill this image with the sound of hooves

Verbicide

the reed, narrates through illumination: 
from the white mouth of the horse, this light 
turns the charge of a consonant to: the house. 

i name a thing & occupy its territory. i hear 
glory, is to kill this image with the sound of hooves: 
i burn that house with that candle         i leave lit 

in Hindustan, in Beirut, God trying to spell out 
time in loose hanging reigns. 

i blow out smoke & the ash shapes into scaffolding i 
pray in this amphitheater made of outlines, outlines 
who follow this image better than these names.

Autopoiesis


Edited by Elizabeth Upshur and Kathy Jiang.
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