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Yusuf Saadi. Pluviophile
Pluviophile
Contents
Love Sonnet for Light
Breaking Fast
Amperage
Unpaid Editorial Internship
Rough Draft
Painting a February Sky
August, After Moonset
Glossary of Air
Semana Santa
Reading Borges on the Moon
Aubade
Nakir
For the Girl Who Doesn’t Believe in Time
Posthuman
The Space Between Pages
Root Canal
Pathetic Fallacy in November
The Good News Channel
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iv
Phenomenology of Night. i
ii
Surah
Child Sacrifice
Tenzing Norgay, Everest
Love Poem for Nusaybah’s Hijab
Made in Bangladesh
eve inventing poetry by her window during the first rainfall. i
ii
Endgame
Mile End
Sonnet by a Forgotten Twix Wrapper
Rilke’s Hands
Quietude
The Raindrops at Heaven’s Gates
Hunting
Toronto, 680 News
Joliette
If Van Gogh Worshipped the Moon
Pedagogy
Foreshadows
The Place Words Go to Die
The Flower Market
Road Trip Dictionary
The Taxi Driver’s Therapy
Spacetime
Is the Afterlife Lonely Too?
Flowers on Europa
lullabies
Belittle
Pleasuring Shahrazad
Notes & Acknowledgements
About the Author
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Yusuf Saadi
My mom walks in and turns the radio on: the adhan being recited to break fast. A man screams or sings in cryptic Arabic muffled by radio static. Steam rises from haleem my mom stirs on the stove; the frying pan’s oil sizzles aloo pakoras. Seedless dates on white china plates and glasses of water on the kitchen table.
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The smoke alarm shrieks its sharp laments. My mom stands on a chair and fans the alarm with a J-cloth— as if waving a flag in surrender.
We’ve scoured wardrobes for soft cotton fabrics to touch against faces like surrogate mothers. Rubbed words together like flint for a day’s motivation. Alarm clocks have towered above watered-down sleeps. On rare occasions, we treat ourselves to fancy cups of coffee, dark chocolate, reveries. Writing poetry at night with the rust from our lives.
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