Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Suna Afshan

  • ‘Root’: a poem by Suna Afshan

    ‘Root’: a poem by Suna Afshan

           Root   At the bottom of the garden In the heart of a blackberry bush Are limbs that do not bleed marrow. Feather bone, iron blood, mind of aether Eyes hold a malignant question The tongue too new to pluck: What was that darkness from which I came? ‘You, apple of the mud…