Munira Tabassum Ahmed



Tell Me Like You Mean It 7

Image by Angélique Moseley When briefing commissioned poets on what I imagined this volume of Tell Me Like You Mean It to embody, I eagerly told them to simply ‘tell me like you mean it’. I didn’t care if it …

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Blue Is All

today when the sky wraps around us as blue as memory today when the world is so big and continues to spin today when the birds stutter before beginning their song today when the trees look too tall standing at …

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Somewhere Different

The river washes over my heart with caution— like this is the first time it has ever held a body. Somewhere different, I am born into the same tension. To hold is to recognise; my mother has named a hollow …

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Glossary for Our Women

           SKIN       HOMELAND       GOLD       BODY       MEANING       warm brown   earth   turning   over //   end of the   rainy   season       বাংলােদশ // the   space   where we   were   planted       sunlight   passed   down from   wrist   to wrist   //   translated:   “a   gift for   you”       the   aperture that   our   ancestors   inherit       SYNONYMS       truth,   motion //   growth,   carambola   see also:   gold,   body       lychee   flesh,   blood   spilt for a   language   see also: body       honey,   spark,   summer   see also:   skin,   stolen       the first   incision   into a   lychee’s   skin   see also:   homeland       ANTONYMS       paint,   mimicry,   false body    …

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