Abstract
Reviewed by: The Last of Him Nadra Mabrouk (bio) When floods rose, the tree branches thinned,carrying nothing but menses. Barren, deficientof the most precious of metals, I walk the pathmy mother plows through, tearing at tinsel on my body.There is never a clearing; the path encircles the darkest woodlandwhere everything is either pregnant or rotting, asleep.New-age medicine says this is where to come for healing,but instead, the bark, cracking, showed my future—how to run while looking back, everything certain as blood. Click for larger view View full resolution MERIKOKEB BERHANU (ETHIOPIA/US), UNTITLED LII (2020), ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 60 X 48 IN. / COURTESY OF ADDIS FINE ART [End Page 53] Nadra Mabrouk Nadra Mabrouk is the recipient of the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2019 Amy Award from Poets & Writers magazine. She holds an MFA from the New York University Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. The author of the chapbook Measurement of Holy (Akashic, 2020), she works in publishing and teaches in New York City. Copyright © 2022 World Literature Today and the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
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