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Hibah Shabkhez

Feb 17, 2021

Hibah Shabkhez: Chew Toffees and Punctured Abysses

Source: Unsplash, downloaded https://unsplash.com/photos/5CbWrvHpwJo (8.1.2021.) Chew Toffees We are Chew toffees inside packets of éclairs Sea-salt in firni, honey on fried eggs, Always and forever out of place. If all this were smoothed away, forgotten Our hearts would find new dreams to break over Trapped in untrusted new joys verboten By fear of being caught in imposture. We are Winter's cold water, hot in summer’s glares Bunties to be diced by zero's dregs, Always and fo

Hibah Shabkhez

Mar 25, 2019

Fleeced With Moss: Hibah Shabkhez

Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, a teacher of French as a foreign language and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Hibah says: "Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for me." FLEECED WITH MOSS A bleak pencil garden’s grey smiling face Bled in with a stencil’s fey laughing grace Will ma

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