Bio
Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition,
an erratic language-learning enthusiast, a teacher of French as a
foreign language and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore,
Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in the Rockford Review,
Qwerty, The Blue Nib, Ligeia, Cordite Poetry, Headway Quarterly and
a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and
literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and
cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her.
Blog:
https://hibahshabkhezxicc.wordpress.com/
Twitter:
@hibahshabkhez
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hibahshabkhezsarusaihiryu/
Instagram:
@shabkhez_hibah
Hibah Shabkhez
Rivering
All water vessels have rivering hearts
Yearning to spin away the dreary parts
Of the unfurnishment of frost-stript trees
With gurgled legends, wild laughing stories
Of a cardamom plunging into blue
Depths with whooping glee, and the old clove, true
To form, beginning to wail and lament
'She drowneth'; but it is only her spent
Laughter bubbling on the rippling water.
She rises with the sun, river-daughter
Of tilted goblets drained by linen-thirst
Choking quests for a sea to drown in first