Tag Archives: Despair

Arbor of Sour Grapes

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Karima Hoisan

Please click play to hear me recite the poem. Desire is just one room in a mansion and it can end in the bedroom or in a luxurious waiting room, years, waiting, hoping, dreaming, or in tears. Its face changes … Continue reading →

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In The Window

Posted on July 31, 2021 by Karima Hoisan

           ~*~This is the Recording I made Live at a Reading in 2010.I invite you to listen as it was written to be performed to music. In The Window(for umahmad) …and there I am again,  standing … Continue reading →

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Cut To Fade

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Karima Hoisan

Cut To Fade <<*>> Propping my head in the window, the afternoon light dips and sways, my hands caress my prayer scarf, my chin is tied and trussed; Now it’s steady as my gaze.      A black gauze hood flaps … Continue reading →

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