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Wildfire
‘Heal, heal’, they say, but how long does it take a forest to recover from wildfire? 80 years and longer. Meanwhile, the forest floor...
Maryam Ghouth


Behind Closed Doors
Like green hands blest, they grow twig to seedling in the dying hedge of the depressed, and with the sun at their backs, cup the light on...
Maryam Ghouth


He Was Also
This man’s polarity reminds me of Ted Bundy—the man who killed women, but saved a toddler from drowning and volunteered at a suicide...
Maryam Ghouth


Severed
“I look at you and see him: your eastern brows, your thick locks, the way you leave trails of sticky notes and dot the room with cold...
Maryam Ghouth


Tapestry
Sometimes… the spaces within ourselves that we do not want to occupy, the spaces we suffocate with our judgments and narrow with our...
Maryam Ghouth


Body
I ask for groundedness to embody my body, to close my eyes and diffuse throughout, sense-check every curve, every tip, visualize my...
Maryam Ghouth
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