Literary Work
DOWN Anam Tariq
A descent. Cloak of invisibility well wrapt in, dropped in on February’s mild, rosy air a grim silhouette, leading her to her fated lair. # # # Shells are all a cynic discerns, superficial performances, descries all not yearns. # # # Blasted underground, blasted above. They turtle-shelled; no fireflies neither butterflies flaky connections in the sky. Recline before a flashing tile while the ebbing white cliffs get back at the root of this upsetting. # # # Now the Euphrates seventeen hundred miles of water going down apace as unseen creatures behind a wall strive. Months/events in unison with Quicksilver, Wanda’s mantle by this poet’s side, existing in a bubble of mine. # # # Tides test immunity; by the Providence’s grace guarded, else mortals vulnerable always.
Anam Tariq did her M.A. in English from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. Alongside being a poet, she aspires to have a career in the academic field and is currently teaching English part-time. She loves to write poems on themes of personal and global concern. Her poems have appeared in three consecutive Women’s College Magazines (at AMU), poetry anthologies Going Off the Grid and India Without A Mask: The Poetics & Politics Of The Pandemic, INKochi Cultural eMagazine and on Live Wire. Her poems are forthcoming in The Punch Magazine. When Anam is not prompting her imagination for verse, she is using it to envisage a world out of the contemporary novels that she loves to read!
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