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Sophia Naz
Mountain light ascending dunes of skin
Found desire’s battleground in ruins of skin

Distance is both sea and vessel, waving
Our sorrow, boundless, spills in tunes of skin

Love makes us outlaws in zealot’s eyes
Hounded in the streets by goons of skin

Fasting eons yield an Eid sighting
Tongues tasting slender moons of skin

To palm a poem is a breeze for Naz
Gives a jot, out come fortunes of skin
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The milieu of "Ghazal: Skin;" outcast lovers, the erotic spiritual, separation and exile; are familiar themes imbued with greater urgency in the wake of moral policing, identity politics and rising authoritarianism in India.

The ghazal traverses various realms: mountain, desert, ocean, sky, city. In each couplet there is a simultaneous sense of distance and nearness, finally coming full circle by joining palm to palm to palm in the triple entendres of the final couplet, braiding together nature, body and act.
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"Even to my jaundiced eye it read like a perfect condensation of the big feelings of that moment. This is a thing that only poetry can do, I was reminded. “Scouting” and many like it in the book comprise a poetry of awakening, of simple amazement at being alive, at having lived and at the living still to be done, of making meaning out of the morass of experience, time, and trouble."
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