he is an endless incoherent sentence
in her body if she questions him words
will blur letters will change their position
explain to me will be
ah, she thinks she can comma him,
and places one between the independent
clause and the word after our plants died
after I stopped watering them, but the comma [s]
ah she thinks she can ‘quotation mark him’
‘I only send wind rain and lightning’
‘if you knew me you would flee’ but
the citation [s]
ah! she thinks she can exclamation him!
I was a tree with leaves swaying in the breeze
now I only have bare branches!!!
but the exclamation mark[s]
exclaim
(ah she thinks she can (bracket him)
you and I (you and I) (can never be)
(well) she knows that information
isnt essential (its extra) its
the unknown
ah… she thinks she can …ellipse him…
im no god to you… youre no goddess…
but he is already made of suspension
points… she scratches her head a little
…
and full-stops him
.
BEDIYE IS AN EMERGING KURDISH-ENGLISH WRITER AND A MOTHER. SHE RECENTLY COMPLETED HER MA IN CREATIVE WRITING AT BIRKBECK. SHE WON THE CORDELIA FELDMAN PRIZE FOR HER PIECE ‘X AND I’ AND HAS BEEN AWARDED THE SOPHIE WARNE FELLOWSHIP FOR HER DISSERTATION IN CREATIVE WRITING AT BIRKBECK.