Farah Ghafoor is the author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025). Selections of her debut won the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, and were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize and the Far Horizons Award. Her work appears in magazines such as The Walrus, Brick Magazine, and The Fiddlehead, art exhibitions like Who's Afraid of Labour Justice? and FACE/WASTE, and post-secondary course curriculums. Farah resides in Tkaranto (Toronto) where she writes about the intersection of climate change, colonialism, and capitalism. Follow her on Instagram @shadowpricepoems and Bluesky @farahghafoor.

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Evolution

By FARAH GHAFOOR

Dear Honeyblooded, won’t you tune for me /
an ambered fate, a dance atop beauty