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Irum Fazal

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I hold still snow by fig and olive 

recursion never looked so good

Jerusalem and Laundress Lane stumbled

the sweetest cold projection, cease 

 

and this safe city mulberry static

Then reduced them to the lowest of all

And it is my belief that all, that almost all, if not all pathologies

stem from complexity

 

the soothing, poorest visibility.  barefoot, retreat

detained in an airport.

Who knows what you ever meant, deleted and new

fingerprints, vicious trees and dissolving warmth:

if I breathe you could be gone for good.  

Irum Fazal has had poems published by Face Press, Earthbound Press, Materials and Critical Documents. She read her poetry at the Southbank Centre with the National Poetry Library and Earthbound Press. As part of Carol Watt's collaborative musical project, Irum read her work at Wigmore Hall. She was formerly a visiting artist to the Judith E. Wilson studio at the English Faculty of Cambridge University. Irum read Oriental Studies at Cambridge, has an MA in modern literature from Birkbeck and MA Islamic Studies from SOAS. She is working on her debut speculative novel. You can find Irum online at irumshaheen.com and on Twitter @isfff.