EUNOIA by Hibah Shabkhez

Pianos glow in silk-scarletted rays
Glazed threads of sun fondly murmuring sit
As autumn paintings shred fraying leafstrays
The earth to winter’s crisper snap commit

At the keys we stand recapping jingles
And steadier eyebrows lift in doorways
As we hoot and munch boxes of pringles
Giggling at the lottery of our days

Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, a teacher of French as a foreign language and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Wellington Street Review, Black Bough, Nine Muses, Borrowed Solace, Ligeia, Cordite Poetry, and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.

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