Listen to Hadiyyah Kuma read after and after:
my ghost loves your ghost my spirit
loves your spirit my soul loves your
soul my specter loves your specter
my ghoul loves your ghoul my love is
your apparition; I piece metaphor into
the muscle of this heartbreak thing
we needn’t any body to embody this
ridiculous mourning and by the way
the sun was one a ghost and now
does its haunting in recall’s penumbra
Hadiyyah Kuma’s work has been featured in places like The Rumpus, the Hart House Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, SmokeLong Quarterly, and Yes Poetry. Her debut chapbook, tired, but not spectacularly was recently published by The Soapbox Press. Hadiyyah's poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net 2019 and she is currently working on her second chapbook.
This work appears in the Winter 2020 edition of the UC Review: Translation.