Nadra Mabrouk is the author of the chapbooks How Things Tasted When We Were Young and Measurement of Holy (2020). A recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the Amy Award, Mabrouk holds an MFA from New York University’s creative writing program and lives in New York.

Photograph by Dayson Roa.

Tacenda

by Nadra Mabrouk

My own skin now still hardening
in February. His name remains, always
relevant, debris in the lake where I stand
on the edge. Northern Shovelers walk the ice.
What the name means is partially relevant.

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