issue 2
Koukash Review
2023
The urban doves coat his taxi door
Like supplicants gathered together
All of them amassing him in a feathered hug
The same creatures in every photo I’ve seen of Mazar e Sharif’s Blue Mosque
There is this picture of a woman amongst the birds there
The blue of her burqa same as the walls
And I can imagine the way her eyes are closed
Can see the shadow of her rocking in the hip hop beat of the taxi in front of me
Two souls bound by the breadcrumbs in their hands
Hanna Kherzai
Submissions - Fall 2022 100% I3 Hanna Kherzai is an Afghan-American poet who aims to root her work in anti-imperialism and community. Hanna is passionate about reproductive justice, public transit, and refugee health. She is currently a second year medical student in so-called Chicago, land of the Three Fires Confederacy, Potawatomi, Odawa and Ojibwe Nations, as well as other Tribal Nations that know this area as their ancestral homeland. Turn on screen reader support To enable screen reader support, press ⌘+Option+Z To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press ⌘slash