Hibah Shabkhez, Pakistan
I am best friends with a loch
That is turning red.
Corpses knock
Hourly for grace on its banks,
For sanctuary.
Guns and tanks
Riddle the human blood-bags:
Pierce them through and through.
My friend gags,
But turns to embrace
Each dead face.
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. Her work has previously appeared in The Mojave Heart Review, Third Wednesday, Brine, Petrichor, Remembered Arts, Rigorous and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.
Read her blog: https://hibahshabkhezxicc.wordpress.com/ and follow her on Twitter @hibahshabkhez
