memoona zahid

this new sadness?          oh          my body is tired of being a body 

my I love yous walk in and say I love you          and sit like rooftop ice on the kitchen floor 

                    while it rains outside in the dim light 

these girlish parts of me will moon away slowly 

          I could be the eyeball sweetness

                    and my bare chest                    a faded pink

I am everything & nothing has happened  

is a British-Pakistani poet living in London. After graduating from Goldsmiths, she recently completed her MA in Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poems have appeared in PAIN, bath magg, Ink, Sweat and Tears and elsewhere.