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How to Occur in Occurrence?

The book I am reading these days is called Buddha in the Attic. I am 24 plus 2 days. It rained a lot today. The house I live in has a backyard garden where real vegetables grow. A green canopy allows for shadowed and humid sits on the rusting chairs. I smoked a single slim from a pack I received in December. When you haven't smoked in a long time, a single slim can really move you. The Winter Melons hanging from the canopy have grown so large they needed to be supported by a cloth. Yellow, brown, weary pieces of textiles are wrapped in support. It's like the melons are standing stuck on a swing. Maybe they call this balance.

Yesterday, as I was going down to Coney Island, there was a heavy shower. Mina and I stood in a candy shop to wait it out but we grew hungry and ran across to Dunkin for a donut. When it stopped and everyone seemed to have abandoned the beach, we carried on. It was a day where I was to model and she was to photograph. I had just bought a new lens and she had just bought a new body.

Upon looking at the photographs, I couldn't help but express how I was not able to recognize this womanly human frozen in startling poses. I wonder if I surprised other people too other than myself. Unable to recognize a body your own is quite an alarming thing.

But anyway, welcome to this website. To this blog. I will try to keep this as classy as possible.

Regards

Ayesha.

A Photo from the shoot:


 
 
 

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Ayesha Raees عائشہ رئیس is a poet and artist identifying as a hybrid creating hybrid poetry through hybrid forms. Her interdisciplinary work places poetry at its center and delves into paint, film, sound,  theater, performance, and collaboration with the intention of breaking conventional ideas of linear language, form, and genre to materialize a space of belonging for marginalia and their narratives. Her work strongly revolves around issues of belonging and dislocation, G/god and spirituality, and beauty::cruelty while possessing a strong agency for decolonial, anti-violence, and anti-erasure practices. She edits poetry at The Margins and has received endorsements from Asian American Writers Workshop, Kundiman, Brooklyn Poets, UNESCO, Millay Colony For The Arts and elsewhere. Her work has been published extensively, including Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, The Nation, Poets.org and others. Her first book of poems Coining A Wishing Tower won the Broken River Prize and was an Indies Award Finalist. Originally from Lahore, she is based in New York City.

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