Osman, Ladan 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
with Amira Hanafi
with Amira Hanafi
Tonight is a drunk man,
his dirty shirt.
There is no couple chatting by the recycling bins,
offering to help me unload my plastics.
– Ladan Osman, “Tonight”
Listen to Ladan Osman, with Amira Hanafi, read for the Chicago Poetry Center:
I can’t tell why I think the dried corncobs
in the gravel and the mattress under the tree
were not put here by children who bite so fast
they leave rows of kernels.
– Ladan Osman, “Gnats”
Watch an interview with Ladan Osman:
