Friends, as you know, The Warp & Weft archive of multilingual audio stories from across the world is an ongoing project.
Today I am honored to share a new poem by Shadab Zeest Hashmi, a Pakistani American poet and essayist whose work has been published worldwide. Recently, she spoke about Sufi archetypes at the London Arts-based Research Institute/AIJS online conference “Emergence of Soul: Jung and Islam.”
In her beautiful new poem, “Warp and Weft,” Shadab writes:
Limits are to be kissed. The warbler marks its territory with song/ And a country of sweet echoes is born, a mythos of whistle, rasp, chirp/ Ours is a song of the loom, with the warp and weft of old country/ and new.
Please listen here.
Later this week the Warp & Weft will begin its series on Palestinian writers and poets, so pls stay tuned.