My Blossomed Potted Plant
by Jennifer Saparzadeh,
“My blossomed potted plant/ My moonlit balcony / From you I am alone / Fish out of its home.”
Going Home
by Leena Aboutaleb,
de / construct, literature into spaces, scrawled on finger/bones, between guest beds, tore through across, bloodstained streets
Hypothetical Body Equation (with Cats)
by Nour Kamel,
I went and made you, because everything where I was was too much.
Hamed Says
by Benjamin Stevenson,
“You see that girl
right there? She’s mukhabarat”—
informants for the government."
Libya is Blue
by Farrah Fray,
"Gaddafi was captured mid siesta,
he tried to escape in a Peugeot truck the colour of the sky"
Spirit of Nasr
by Shady Shebak,
"The spirit of Nasr was hovering over Egypt. It had been for some time, but it was getting ready to make its move. It was 1882 when the spirit of Nasr showed itself. Its been 20, 20, 20, 10, and 1 since the last time it made its move."
