While you are sleeping in your mama’s womb you have a creepy vision. Two buffaloes dragging your body towards a cameraman. You move your fatty belly from right to lift as a stupid way to prove that you are not hungry anymore. Some mysterious smell flatter in the air like an unfinished task. You start to cry & laugh at the same time.
The two animals indulged their pointed fingers in a pool of dirt. They painted your whole face while dancing on their tippy-toes. The scene lacks Surrealism. You know certain words from an ancient age. You try to shape them into your lips. God watching you as usual. He waves in amusement. Numerous trees grow between your thighs. You crawl toward single laughter escaping from an angel’s chest. You see the world with an open eye.
A woman sitting under you playing with the time machine. She makes a fuss but no one punishes her. You contemplate the world in awe. You love to whisper even when you don’t know what to say.
The two buffalo returned again, lifting your body to the level of the Seventh Heaven.
You watch a million flying fish nursing their babies. A man looks at you. He wears some messy clouds. You think it is not real. You say it is just my imagination.
A group of poets embracing mint leaves. Crystal water circles their brownish necks. They bite a bread-shaped poem. You feel amazed. Who am I? You ask. Where am I? You repeat. God still watching. He composes a fresh play. You want to take a look. He knows that. Some of his precious papers fall down intently until reaching your feet. You read it. You feel a sudden shiver. Everything turns upside down. You close your eyes again & keep moving inside your mother’s kingdom.
Amirah Al Wassif is an award-winning published poet. Her poetry collection “for those who don’t know chocolate” was published in February 2019 by Poetic Justice Books & Arts. Her illustrated children book “The Cocoa Boy and Other Stories” was published in February 2020. Her poetry collection “how to bury a curious girl” was published by Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company.
Her poem “Hallucinations” was nominated for the Science Fiction Poetry Rhysling Award.
Her poems have appeared in several prints and online publications including South Florida Poetry, Birmingham Arts Journal, Hawaiʻi Review, The Meniscus, Chiron Review, The Hunger, Writers Resist, Right Now, and others.
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