MICRO

Cycles

By HAZEM FAHMY | 28 JUN 2017

By Viviane Sassen — tightrope, courtesy of Bruce Alridge

Cycles

Another brown body
hits the dust, and our cries
dance,

that most undead
of routines,
that violent velleity:

splintering tight rope,
heavy flow heart.

No hands
can hold
what we’ve lost.

Hazem Fahmy is a poet and critic from Cairo. He is currently pursuing a degree in Humanities and Film Studies from Wesleyan University. His poetry has appeared, or is forthcoming in Mizna, COG and HEArt. In his spare time, he writes about the Middle East and tries to come up with creative ways to mock Classicism. He makes videos occasionally.

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