Fall 2010
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Nonfiction
Magic in a Bottle
Karen Hunt – United States
“Ah, Fez!” he said, as if revealing a secret mantra. “To understand it, you must understand the mystery of the number five. And the construction of an onion.”
Poetry
Under the Olive Tree
Mariam Al-Kalby – United States
I began to work extra hard around our broken house,
Feverishly scrubbing the only black pot …
Heartless-as-can-be?
April Avalon – Russia
I’m wild and sometimes even heartless-as-can-be,
I’m fond of collecting illusions to ruin …
L'Hirondelle
W.F. Lantry – United States
In that month, a woman was married
in Calais: wasted the long
mornings of watching, gone
the pebbled shoreline of this ancient sea
and the skimming of mouettes and terns.
| M.A.R. Habib, past Damazine comtributor, has recently published Shades of Islam, a dazzling and moving collection of poems addressing faith, love, politics, and Islam in the twenty-first century. The book is available from Amazon and Amazon UK. |
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