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Poem of the week: Afterwardness by Mimi Khalvati

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Fragile but precious memories haunt this resonant sonnet

Afterwardness

An eleven-year-old boy from Aleppo
whose eyes hold only things no longer there
– a citadel, a moat, safe rooms of shadow,
‘afterwardness’ in his thousand yard stare –

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