Poems... published

Smoking Ceremony, Rattle

What an honour to have my villanelle appear at Rattle! Read and listen to it here.

blue and red abstract painting
blue and red abstract painting
Writing on Mirrors

I scribble

in a frenzy

before I forget

so I can peer through

and see myself

Hemat Malak

water droplets on glass window
water droplets on glass window
the poet pauses

watching beneath the lines

as you read her insides

for clues

your face softens

your breath slows

she swoons

and fades

away

Hemat Malak

Mum Feels Displaced Just Sixty Kilometres From Her Old House in Punchbowl, Rochford Street Review

Wonderful to appear in an online issue of this great Australian publication. Read it here.