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But the lavender will fade

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Nina Mouawad is a Lebanese poet and Master’s student of English Language and Literature at the University of Balamand. Her work has appeared in Act One: Cutting Edges and Scarlet Leaf Review.

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But the lavender will fade

By August 22, 2018February 4th, 2019No Comments

Every time I go back I take a sprig of lavender.

Tuck it into the folds of encircled heartbeats,

sun-dry and spoon it into bags with stray eyelashes.

Wrap around people-colored dreams and

rub the buds against the walls to mask the smell of white.

 

Every time I went back, I took a sprig of the lavender

that god in heaven below was regurgitating

by the time I decided to leave.

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Nina Mouawad is a Lebanese poet and Master’s student of English Language and Literature at the University of Balamand. Her work has appeared in Act One: Cutting Edges and Scarlet Leaf Review.

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    Rima Rantisi is an essayist, lecturer at the American University of Beirut, and the founding editor of Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal. Her essays can be found in the New England Review, Literary Hub, Slag Glass City, Rusted Radishes, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and has received literary fellowships from Art Omi, Headlands Center for the Arts, Monson Arts, and Hedgebrook. She is at work on a collection of essays on writing and the liminal spaces residing at the junctions of motherhood/land, fractured histories, and writing.

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