Extermination يوم القيامة
for Yazidi Women
rape
us whiter and holy
we will assemble the bones
dismember
memory of the past
stories trusted to oil bloodied lips
from burnt olive trees dripping
down
to fingertips
destroy
the iridescent crescent
beat of a song that sings blue
but it drums like god listen
allah allah allah
a sigh of something beautiful
you will be witness
to the many stages of the end
the many stages of resurrection
vision dazzles
sun and darkened moon are one
ignore hereafter for herenow
your collarbone escapes you
leg wound around leg
الله الله الله
gives life to the dead
Nour Kamel
Nour Kamel is perfectly lit and writes things in Cairo, Egypt. Kamel works as a writer and editor, studied at the University of East Anglia with a year abroad at the University of Mississippi, is a Winter Tangerine workshop alumnus, and was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize in 2018. Kamel writes about identity, language, sexuality, queerness, gender, oppression, femininity, trauma, family, lineage, globalization, loss, and food.
