Farida Haque
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

A Thousand Ways to Die

“A woman tells her story

in inflections

that are caresses born

under a snapdragon’s wing,

and I agree;

there are a thousand ways to die.

And a thousand reasons to stay alive, I say,

because you hold your ear

to starry whorls of

sounds in the skies, lost

Mandalas waiting to be claimed…”

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    Farida Haque

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    Multimedia artist, writer, poet. ‘Celebrating other lives, I am a sparrow in the shadow of a rosebush...’ faridahaque@gmail.com