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Earthquake

Poetry by ​​Bänoo Zan

Mirrors leave the wall
The wall leaves the house
 
I rip the sheets
Wrap them around my feet
 
Pick the survival kit
Walk over glass
 
to the door
that is no longer standing
 
The ground is a disloyal friend
Disaster is my shelter
 
I  look for a corpse
 –
report myself missing –​
 
Ghosts haunt my ruins
in a dream
I don’t want to remember
 
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​​Bänoo Zan

Bänoo Zan is a poet, librettist, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, with more than 200 published poems and three books. Song of Phoenix: Life and Works of Sylvia Plath (2008), Songs of Exile (2016; shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award by the League of Canadian Poets) and Letters to My Father (2017). She is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night), Toronto’s most diverse and brave poetry and open mic series (inception: 2012) that bridges the gap between ethnicities, nationalities, religions (or lack thereof), ages, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, poetic styles, voices and visions. Photo credit: Rumman Rahman

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