“Frankentestines” by Elizabeth Graehling
all things, all lovers
eventually all friends
all lovers all hearts all
things are forgotten
at the bottom of the trunk down
the back of the couch to be
discovered and aww-ed
over later, to be over-
awed by later, to love again,
later, different, with less fervour
and perhaps a bit more
commitment, but not even,
because eventually
all things, all friends, all lovers
set out to sea
far out to sea
and off the edge
~ Kyla Pasha
Kyla Pasha is a poet and academic from Pakistan who teaches comparative religion and cultural studies in Lahore. She is co-founder and managing editor of Chay Magazine: Sex and Sexuality in Pakistan. Her first book of poems, “High Noon and the Body”, was published in 2010 by Yoda Press, and she co-edited “Two Loves: Faiz’s Letters from Jail”, published in 2011 by Sang-e-Meel Publications. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Religious Studies in the US and working on her second collection of poems.
