Interlude

Isra Hassan

Our ivory hearts

bear the biting

cold so you can

accompany me

outside. Our

poetic timing

sustains the

diligent dusk.

We look

down. The sea

glass reflects on

epiphany indigo.

O’ how lucky we are

to see ourselves.

I beam. You smile.

And the fauna see us

invent moonlight.

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Isra Hassan is a true believer in poetry and black nihilism. A poet from Minneapolis, her work can be found (or is forthcoming) in Poet Lore, The Waterstone Review, The Penn Review, and elsewhere. She resides in Washington, D.C.