Settling Up I wanted beautiful things: to hold the earth- enware and smell its coffee beans, your face in the morning soft before waking, the latest new moon covert and still loved. I wanted couture too. I wanted god- et hemlines with fairytale endings, frothy tulle sleeves, purses in ice blues and cherry reds with gold chains to grasp and swing. I wanted to chase a life in the world that felt a little like a romantic comedy on a movie theatre screen: big and ordinary and out of reach, and come home to a life of aging Rembrandt’s self-portrait: the sunlight revealing our rumpled faces, our willingness to hold on to the shadows. Anna Talhami Anna Talhami is a poet and interdisciplinary artist with recent poetry in Rattle, Life as Ceremony, Hevria Magazine, and (F)Empower. She has performed her poetry across the U.S., including at the El Paso border for Artist Uprising, Radio Bloomsday, and the Theopoetics Conference. Her work has been presented at the Library of Congress, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and elsewhere. Visit her at annatalhami.com
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2/26/2022 12:27:37 am
Superb literary visuals which create a dervitive sense of devine intervention when reading. Great Job!!! I loved it!!!
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