Hafsa Zulfiqar hails from Pakistan and is a recent graduate of Bennington College where she studied literature and psychology. Her work explores brown identity, dreams, language, liminality, and above all the notion of home; it can be found or is forthcoming in AAWW: The Margins, The Offing, South Dakota Review, Kissing Dynamite, & Anti-Heroin Chic. She serves on the staff of Muzzle Magazine & Pollux Journal. You can find her on Twitter @hafsazunar

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POETRY

Small Nightmares I Dream In A Foreign Country

By HAFSA ZULFIQAR

I thanked the scissors, / cut the thread I had woven between continents, / families, the uneven fingers of life / and slept with it under my pillow.