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by Zara Shams
​A Different Kind of Spring, photo by Deborah Saul
@deborahsaulphotography
http://deborahsaulphotography.com/
Zara Shams is a writer from the UK and Pakistan, currently based in the South of England. Her work has appeared in Noble/Gas Quarterly, Sonder Midwest, and Visual Arts Collective’s All Roads Will Lead You Home. 


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Beheading Daisies

Baba shaves religiously
he believes he will
find discipline
under all that stubble

Mama is on the front lawn
beheading daisies
with a ride-on mower

I revert
rescue bumble bees from the skylight
refuse to play God
to reach a settlement between
the squirrel and the elm tree
the fox and the rabbits

At night I cry for everything 
lost since.






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