bookboons

All PDF Details And All in one Detail like Improve Your Knowledge

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Testimony By Aman Chishti

TestimonyMy best friend has tiny burnsdotted along her arms from her restaurant's fryers like a garden of small and soldiering peonies, little red-purple colony that must have looked very long and hard,must have suffered perennially arid discontent, b…
Read on blog or Reader
Site logo image The Rising Phoenix Review Read on blog or Reader

Testimony By Aman Chishti

By The Rising Phoenix Review on July 13, 2024

Testimony

My best friend has tiny burns
dotted along her arms from her restaurant's fryers
like a garden of small and soldiering peonies,
little red-purple colony that must have looked
very long and hard,
must have suffered perennially arid discontent,
before sprouting merrily where it knew the air
would be hospitable
and the loam loving.

Half woman, half water, she weaves fluidly
through the arithmetic of commerce.
The booming tenor of family.
And of course, the train we take together,
of which we have grown weary passengers—
how the glenohumeral joint articulates.
Dengue and multiple sclerosis. A dilated
cardiomyopathy quiz from an earmarked textbook
as she fashions soup for dinner.
She's prepared it extra spicy because that's
how I like it.
She'd never admit it but I know how her affection looks,
sharply aureate and dense with lentils
on her stovetop.

I knew she was Palestinian before she said it.
What other nation could have forged the
enduring river of her blood?
What other mouth could deliver such
sinew and steel,
the undeniable alacrity of her nails, the
resolute and unflinching poetry of her stance,
silent as stone,
equanimous as the river that washes over it,
and still—despite it all—
the tenderness of her eyes,
two round zaytoun
persistent in their fragrance
like the homeland trees from
which they unfurled?

By Aman Chishti

Biography:

Aman Chishti is a second-year medical student at the University of Missouri. Her love for poetry was sparked by a grade school assignment and has persisted throughout her life. While earning her undergraduate degree in Public Policy and Administration, her poetry was selected to be featured in her undergraduate institution's literary journal, and as a medical student, a poem of hers was recently selected to be featured in the journal Capital Psychiatry. Following medical school, she plans on pursuing a career in child and adolescent psychiatry and continuing her lifelong devotion to the written word.

Comment

The Rising Phoenix Review © 2024.
Manage your email settings or unsubscribe.

WordPress.com and Jetpack Logos

Get the Jetpack app

Subscribe, bookmark, and get real‑time notifications - all from one app!

Download Jetpack on Google Play Download Jetpack from the App Store
WordPress.com Logo and Wordmark title=

Automattic, Inc.
60 29th St. #343, San Francisco, CA 94110

at July 13, 2024
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

️ Flash Rituals: Celebrating Flash Fiction Month Short. Strange. Unforgettable.

Mind on Fire Books honors the art of brevity with new tales that flicker, scorch, and vanish like smoke. Read the latest flash drops inside....

  • The Book Of Clarence (2024) Film Review
    ...
  • New & Noteworthy J-pop of the Week (June 30, 2024)
    In connection with my desire to fully keep up with the J-pop industry, I'm p...
  • Ordinary Angels (2024) Film Review
    A struggling hairdresser finds a renewed sense of purpose when she meets a widow...

Search This Blog

  • Home

About Me

bookboons
View my complete profile

Report Abuse

Blog Archive

  • July 2025 (1)
  • June 2025 (4)
  • May 2025 (4)
  • April 2025 (5)
  • March 2025 (5)
  • February 2025 (4)
  • January 2025 (6)
  • December 2024 (3)
  • November 2024 (4)
  • October 2024 (1)
  • August 2024 (2405)
  • July 2024 (2925)
  • June 2024 (2960)
  • May 2024 (3057)
  • April 2024 (2967)
  • March 2024 (3077)
  • February 2024 (2890)
  • January 2024 (3023)
  • December 2023 (2680)
  • November 2023 (2216)
  • October 2023 (1706)
  • September 2023 (1319)
  • August 2023 (1194)
  • July 2023 (1113)
  • June 2023 (1201)
  • May 2023 (2369)
  • April 2023 (2849)
  • March 2023 (1637)
  • February 2023 (1153)
  • January 2023 (1234)
  • December 2022 (1086)
  • November 2022 (1005)
  • October 2022 (809)
  • September 2022 (649)
  • August 2022 (778)
  • July 2022 (763)
  • June 2022 (759)
  • May 2022 (802)
  • April 2022 (779)
  • March 2022 (593)
  • February 2022 (493)
  • January 2022 (697)
  • December 2021 (1568)
  • November 2021 (3175)
  • October 2021 (3250)
  • September 2021 (3142)
  • August 2021 (3265)
  • July 2021 (3227)
  • June 2021 (2032)
Powered by Blogger.