West Texas Nocturne

Tarfia Faizullah has poems published in the current issue of the American Poetry Review

Congrats, dear Tarfia!

Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry’s First Book Award.

 

from "West Texas Nocturne"

Because the sky burned, I had to unhinge
from the window the mesh screen
to step out onto the roof where the world was
an orange freshly peeled.

 

Read more here: https://www.aprweb.org/poem/west-texas-nocturne