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”Zainab Ismail’s lush and startling debut explores her tricultural heritage, what she dubs ‘the taproot tapestry’ that ‘wove the heavens in her mouth.’ She may not be able to speak her home in Gujarati harmonies or Arabic auxiliaries, but she is firmly planted in poetry’s formal earth.’ Cherry Smyth
Read the poem ‘Prayers Heard’ below:
She holds a sibilant crush of silver between her hands.
Old in the palm-folds, a hush stirs between her hands.
A weight of gold begins to gush, narrating the gravity
of warm myth, the rush of jacarandas between her hands.
Emerald pendants blend and shine, ephemeral continents
comprehended from the sky. She transfers between her hands
the whole world, right-left, left-right. The world goes bright
with divine promise, prayers heard between her hands.
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