iambic pentameter by Palash Mahmud

[i]

what if a promise

comes back
drills your amygdala

like a gimlet
bleeds 

in an iambic pentameter

 

[ii]

and you

anesthetize it

with a new promise

 

like tender wind
melting an ice-cube

in an iambic pentameter

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About the Poet:

Palash Mahmud is a bilingual writer, book critic based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His poetry, literary reviews and criticisms appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, Mediterranean Poetry, Active Muse,  League of Poets, Superstition Review, The Punch Magazine, Kitaab, Ephemeral Elegies, The Bosphorus Review of Books, Poetry Potion Trouvaille Review, Poet’s Choice and forthcoming elsewhere. He worked as a poetry reader for Sepia Quarterly.

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