Monsoon Magazine Vol.1.2., S. Selina Jamil

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S. Selina Jamil

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EXHAUSTION
Exhaustion came
like a beaked summer afternoon
with folded wings
twitching erratically,
pecking and clawing torpidly
at the dustbin
of disenchantment,
jettisoning sweltering
scraps of rebuff,
screeching in a limp monotone
at the silent apartments
of languidly screened apathy,
reflecting a void of platitudes
in the well of its eye.

THOUGHTS
A thousand thoughts, rising above
a tangled mass of garnered
convictions or heirlooms of prejudice;
a thousand thoughts, but they
are not all ideas - perhaps not one.

So, like a child I wonder:
at what point does
incoherence become coherence?

And out of the thousand thoughts
an idea emerges momentarily
like a series of criss-crossing lines
becoming a sudden
grasp of simple patterns
in the streaks of henna
flickering in a bride's
folding and unfolding palm.

A thousand thoughts passing
like museum-visitors
who gaze at the laminated pages
of a salvaged manuscript
and vacillate between
dots of cognition
and stretches of incomprehension,
and then shuffle into penumbral silence.

After receiving a Ph.D. on Henry James from Michigan State University in 1997, S. Selina Jamil joined the University of Hartford as an assistant professor of English. A few of Jamil's poems have appeared in Form: A Magazine of the Arts, Short Stories Bimonthly, JEPOL: Journal of English Poetry Online, The Poets' Corner (online), Passions in Poetry (online), Indolink (online) with two more forthcoming in A Writer's Choice Literary Journal. Jemil has also been published in Harvest: a journal of literary studies.

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