Author name: Namal

Hunza

March 2021 I am here, after all these years. The cherries have blossomed. The apricots, walnuts too. You are different than I imagined. I think, better. You are not the conventional beauty. Rather eerie. Ghostly and fairytale like. We have just officially finished winter here and so the cherry blossoms, but still winter hasn’t left yet. Before spring

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A poem about Ikea

I was walking through Ikea on a weekend afternoon, looking for some stuff for a friends DIY wedding celebration. I think the idea of her getting married and me being surrounded by furniture ignited a thought about how humans look for reassurances in the stuff they hold on to – people, things, books, souvenirs and

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