STIRRING
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
Founded in 1999, Stirring is one of the oldest continuously publishing journals on the internet.
Stirring is an electronic quarterly journal.
LISA SULTANI
Words are not enough, yet neither is violence--
I draw a line in the sand, then erase it
My country’s history evokes a birdsong
which begins suddenly, and echoes
through a river. In this we must swim.
Once, I wished to change things. Now?
I scatter doubt across my grandchildren’s
vision. This is seed for the birds:
those that tell the wet truth of my country.
Ms. Sultani earned her MA in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She now lives in Atlanta, GA, where she does her best to avoid the freeways. Her poetry is included in Borderless, Doubly Mad, MORIA and The Talon Review, among others.
