Once upon a rêveur,
Cast against a
tar-like tree
Silhouetted under a
forlorn sky, where teardrop shaped wings of a bird fly free-
is what she believed.
But rather like
roots, in the ground where they lie unclean,
Was where her place was,
alive but unseen.
Nadia Benielloun
Nadia Benjelloun is from Tangier, Morocco.As
well as an award-nominated essayist and poet, and emerging filmmaker, she also
currently serves as senior editor for Typehouse Literary Magazine. She has been
featured in The Literary Yard, Eskimo Pie, In Parenthesis Journal, The Scarlet
Leaf Review, DM du Jour at Danse Macabre, The Book Smuggler’s Den, The
Sagebrush Review, The Abstract Elephant, Trouvaille Review, Silver Stork, the
Wingless Dreamer, the African Writer Magazine, The Antonym, Quill Bell, Tenth
Street Miscellany, Solarpunk Magazine and is forthcoming in many more. She is
currently pursuing graduate school in the United Kingdom.