All in a spoon by Salimah Valiani

[tabby title="Poem"] All in a spoon A small teaspoon,A teaspoon twice its size:What can one dothe other cannot? A small teaspoon can train the mind toeat less eat slowerA small teaspoon can stretchl e s s f o o d...

The ivory of speech by Salimah Valiani

[tabby title="Poem"] The ivory of speech …of course I hated the warsbut like all men activeI fought in them tooAnd now I speak to youfrom blood and broken-nessAs in a forest:all the trees that are fallen and kept alive by...