Penumbra

Niloofar Fanaiyan

Penumbra

 
 
I thought of telling you about my dream, the one where cherry blossoms grew from my hair and formed a field as you strode by—you could hear the trees and see the waves bend and dance—it was half storm/half sunshine, and I waited with you at the intersection—a password within us, a cluster of knots.
 
 
 
 

Niloofar Fanaiyan is a writer and poet who has lived in the US, Australia, the Netherlands, Tanzania, and Israel. She was the 2016 Donald Horne Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra, where she obtained her PhD. She received the Canberra Critics Circle Literary Award for poetry for her book of poems titled Transit (Recent Work Press, 2016).