A review by lifeinpoetry
Fugitive Atlas by Khaled Mattawa, Khaled Mattawa

4.0

Excerpts:

What will you do, dear God, without us? How
will you fare, alone again in the empty vast, in the dark
of your creation, without us giving you your name?

(from “Shikwah”)

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Don’t close your eyes,
or the stories you’ve told
will swallow you.

(from “Procreation”)

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everywhere
a hemorrhage
of dread

(from “‘Alams for Sun on Shuttered Windows”)