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Laala Kashef Algahta

She is brittle.
She says her feelings could break
like bones.

She stood tall on the hood
of my car, tap-dancing,
scratching the paint job.
My blood boils

but her feelings break
at the sight of the wave
shifting underneath my skin-
she pauses, small,
and falls cross-legged,
onto a fracture, bounces slightly,
wincing.

She is a tooth-ache I cannot ignore
but my heart is in her back pocket
and, skin against skin, my home.

Issue 5

Biography:

Bahriani poet and novelist (and student) Laala Kashef Alghata is the editor of the poetry journal, Write Me a Metaphor. Her poem I Want to Feel Van Gogh's Night was recently the focus of a month-long exhibit in Clemson, SC. Her most recent book, Behind the Mask: A Folded Heart (2006), a collection of poetry and prose, is available at Amazon.co.uk and she is a poet-in-residence in both Soul to Soul and ArgoBoat. Her work appears online in poetry journals such as All Things Girl, Argotist Online, SubtleTea and La Fenetre.

http://afoldedheart.blogspot.com.

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