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* Amira Ali holds an MA in International Relations and Conflict
Resolution. She is a freelance writer, poet and activist.
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She belongs to
the corner
streets
whose whispers
never reveal
the secrets of
the owner,
streets
guard the shadow
of time
she
maiden-less
leaves her son
to the streets.
A time
so deformed,
words prostitute
themselves,
mothers
prostitute
a child's soul,
Thee Word is
silent
as necessity
bends
down
prostituting
itself.
Feminine...read more [6]
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