Song of a Masjid’s Floor
Image: “Lahore #44” by Faizan Adil. “Song of a Masjid’s Floor” was written by Ammara Younas for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, July 2024, and selected as the Series Editor’s Choice.
Image: “Lahore #44” by Faizan Adil. “Song of a Masjid’s Floor” was written by Ammara Younas for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, July 2024, and selected as the Series Editor’s Choice.
Ignore your hand and focus on the pen,
which writes without your knowledge of the whole.
Do not insert the personal. Avoid translation.
The changes made are small and gradual.
Only grass is hurt when two bulls lock horns like this.
Even the sun was ashamed. Were we born like this?
in china, a farmer sows
a mountain filled with ambitious wishes of
jade rings and lush, velvet beds sailing
blessings to new york.
Sometimes, in school, I felt lonely thinking about conjunctions and
commas. The sentence ended before I knew it, but I wanted and.
You may have thought, from visiting art shows,
that canyons squeezed together on their way
downstream.