Hafizah Geter was a finalist in Narrative’s Fifth Annual Poetry Contest. Born in Zaria, Nigeria, she received a BA in economics from Clemson University and an MFA in poetry from Columbia College in Chicago. She lives in Brooklyn.

Five Poems

by Hafizah Geter

Today Is a Photograph

All the children
my sister has left


kneeling in a garden.
It is an orange spider


crushed between their teeth,
becoming heirs


to each other’s hungers.
People on couch
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