A review by wylanslcve
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

5.0

If hearing about a world other than yours
makes you uncomfortable,
drink the sea,
cut off your ears,
blow another bubble to bubble your bubble and the pretense.
Blow up another town of bodies in the name of fear.

oh this was so devastatingly beautiful and so, so powerful. I could honestly spend hours upon hours dissecting each and every verse — this is most certainly a read that I will not stop thinking about for the foreseeable future and one that I will not stop recommending to people because everyone needs to read this.

”We’ll return once things cool down,”
and she believed,
wore her key
until her key her neck her memory
became the same colour.

here’s one last quotation for good measure:

We looked up to the clouds, got up on clouds.
Here, we know two suns: earth’s friend and white phosphorus.
Here, we know two things: death and the few breaths before it.