Maryam Ivette Parhizkar’s most recent chapbook is Somewhere Else the Sun is Falling into Someone’s Eyes (Belladonna*, 2019). She is a poet, scholar, graduate student worker, and member of the U.S. Central American collective Tierra Narrative. The title of this piece was an instruction uttered by choreographer luciana achugar during a class at the Center for Movement Research, May 2020.

MICRO

imagine your hands as flowers

By MARYAM IVETTE PARHIZKAR

I try

kiss you from here––