Eyes Averted
I shuffle, shuffle, shift, keep my eyes averted, while trying to pretend not to notice the embrace you’ve just sidestepped.
Author Archives: Shubnum Khan
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Longo
It’s a parasite you’ve created that’s eating its way through all the memories Most images and stills, of a vampire in love, an ink tatoo on a hand (doodled during words on water), a red hat that covered my secret, a heart-shaped shell (when you trekked through the woods), turbulent […]
Wikileaks Cartoon (Al Qalam newspaper)
(Originally published for Al Qalam newspaper in July 2010 after Wikileaks revealed US army death cover ups in Iraq hidden in July 2007. Read more here: http://bit.ly/cBcBQH)
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On Deaf Ears Cartoon (Al Qalam Newspaper)
(Originally published for Al Qalam newspaper, June 2010)
Blood & Fun
This sudden rising of bile to the throat. Awakening? No, awakening sounds too… noble. Peering? Peering out from within the warmth of my life dreams: striving for ever-happiness-life-in-a-house-with-handsome-husband-while-cooking-perfect-meals-over-a-perfect-stove-published-author-writer-beautiful-good-daughter who wonders: Will-I-be-a-good-mother? Will-my-husband-leave-me? Will-I-fall-in-love-with-someone-else? What-about-money? What-if-my-father-dies? Shall-I-cut-my-hair? Beyond all that. Beyond the absurdity of all those ideas that control me I […]
The story of that (empty) house (1)
This house, no, THAT house held many things. In it’s wall grew a tangle of thoughts, emotions, musings wanderings, knotted together with desire, hope, love and courage decaying with anger, misunderstanding, insecurity and indifference This house, no, THAT house was built on a strong yet unsteady foundation of fascination That […]
Flotilla Cartoon (Al Qalam newspaper)
(Originally published Al Qalam newspaper, May 2010 after Israel attacked 6 flotillas with construction material and humanitarian aid making its way to Gaza. 9 activists onboard were shot by Israeli commandos, who forcibly boarded, before the flotilla could reach Gaza. World condemnation came too late. Read more here: http://bit.ly/aZaDnF)
On realities
It’s all relative really. You me. Ideologies. Perspectives. Truth. Realities. It’s funny how things that are supposed to make sense of the world just screw it up even more.
Silent Sky
I swallow, And I swallowand I swallowand I swallow and I dont know where all the words go Perhaps to some forlorn land where wordswalk oddly against a secret skycrooked, roughed-up words,beaten, that struggledfor life trying to escape the narrowing tunnelof a quickly closing throat, words that flew up only […]
