Listening Against the Threshold of Pain
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SAPIENS’ 2025 poet-in-residence situates her listening in Kashmir and Germany during and after her fieldwork, contextualizing her contributions to SAPIENS this year.
If you missed Uzma Falak’s previous SAPIENS poems, you can find them here.
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Anatomy of Silence
In the city of
lashed tongues
gashed throats
bleeding ears
LED screens and projectors
wired to sound amplifiers
blare the Minister of Stolen Time’s
Independence Day speech
across empty streets
lashed tongues
gashed throats
bleedin
If you missed Uzma Falak’s previous SAPIENS poems, you can find them here.
✽
Anatomy of Silence
In the city of
lashed tongues
gashed throats
bleeding ears
LED screens and projectors
wired to sound amplifiers
blare the Minister of Stolen Time’s
Independence Day speech
across empty streets
lashed tongues
gashed throats
bleedin
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