December 16, 2014 – The Peshawar Massacre by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] December 16 – a spectral mist of melancholy,a lost voice like powder glass on a matchbox,a sensation so dominating your heart quivers,a spectacle so distressing and bloodcurdlingit leaves you in tears, disbelief, concussion. December 16 – a...

Flashbacks Still Breathe by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] the Quranic calligraphy in glitter, fringed by corkscrew seashells –redolent of Karachi, still hangs above the headboard in my room; the warm aroma of desi ghee on parathas, the tea, and fried eggs –breakfasts at dawn after...

Sadism-Infested by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] tinker with a spark of lucifer insideslithering as a cigarette's smokea sadist heart lies drunk in rapturea denying soul bleeds mercilesslyenchanting touch of a demon feelslike an alchemist's gilding wandif red is love so is blood a...

Eclipse by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] the reverberance of my thoughts grows frommoribund ebon to sanguine tides in my veins toashen grey of meaninglessness of life toclamping teal blue of monachopsis & chaos toblinding white of nothingness & numbnesswords blur & quiver like...

Pneuma by Hafsa Mumtaz

[tabby title="Poet Bio"] malaise – disconcerted lizard's tail in lacerationfaceless white walls – a blank sheet of paper –sibilance, obscuring sounds, kenopsiacomposure – petrified heart thundering & wispingacrasia – a spray of blood that quenches the thirst –sonder, anechoic heart,...