I'm Tired of Learning More
of What No One Can Understand
by Hajjar Baban
That lavender nearby grows on soil previously occupied
by a Saddam-directed prison.
Tracy reminds us of course Saddam was yes, a taurus.
That Saddam I wrote a persona poem in
in recent years. By recent I mean
as a teenager. I choked on the spoils--
but other people died. The knowledge
didn’t let me hold freedom--
I didn’t grow from a tree.
*with a line borrowed from Tracy May Fuad's 'Lessons of Darkness'
by a Saddam-directed prison.
Tracy reminds us of course Saddam was yes, a taurus.
That Saddam I wrote a persona poem in
in recent years. By recent I mean
as a teenager. I choked on the spoils--
but other people died. The knowledge
didn’t let me hold freedom--
I didn’t grow from a tree.
*with a line borrowed from Tracy May Fuad's 'Lessons of Darkness'
Hajjar Baban is a Pakistan-born Afghan Kurdish poet. A 2021 PD Soros Fellow, she is currently an MFA in Poetry candidate at the University of Virginia. She has work appearing in and forthcoming from Canthius Magazine, Guernica, and Pleiades. Find more at hajjarbaban.com