Unholy Sonnet by Nada Faris
Unholy Sonnet by Nada Faris
Nada Faris— After Mark Jarman
When Abraham felt his heart
waver, Allah granted him a miracle:the dismembering of a flying bird. Its bones
were wrenched apart, then gentlyset on separate mountaintops. Feathers
and flesh flew together, complete. A beakbegan to dote and speak words of surrender.
The word surrender opens gated dimensionswhere Time neither ticks nor passes, it heaves
like our breasts, like beasts who only wantto love God in every language where mysteries are captured
with a swallowing love: three times the size of a universe,from Big Bang to human consciousness,
and seven times smaller than a pearl.
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This poem appeared in Amethyst Review, 2021.
ABOUT NADA FARIS
Nada Faris is a writer and literary translator from Kuwait. She is the author of Fountain of Youth (Athens, Greece: Vine Leaves Press, 2016), a semi-finalist in the 2016 Vine Leaves Vignette Collection Award, and Mischief Diary (Doha, Qatar: HBKU, 2018), a young adult short story collection. She collaborated with Maha Al-Asaker on Women of Kuwait (Hillsboro, North Carolina: Daylight Books 2019), which became a finalist in the Lucie Photobook Award. And recently, Nada translated… (more)
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