Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Clare Pollard but the water that flows

but the water that flows through many of these poems

slipping through cracks

she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to control the twisted tales hiding in the wings

'These lyrically rich

Winner of the 2019 New Poets Prize judged by Mary Jean Chan

Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Clare Pollard but the water that flowsComplex, melancholic, and sensual, the late Shereen Akhtars Rabbi Robin is at a continuous crossroads of reckoning with queer, interfaith love, addiction and channeling the expansion of this mysterious darkness and light, in which the speaker invites us to kiss the calligraphy on her skin too holy to touch. The words burn. The words are moot. But Akhtars words themselves ask the reader to give so much more of themselves, to consider and make real a