Sunday afternoon in early June
and I want
every summer
to be just like this – rhubarb &
orange zest
bubbling in a pot
Nature breaking open / a p a r t
Heat transmuting garden vegetable & citrus fruit into steamy
sugary
bloodshot jam …
Poem, in its entirety, is available in the printed version of the current issue.
Bio:
Salma Hussain is a former lawyer. Her fiction has appeared in Canadian literary journals, including filling Station, the Humber Literary Review, and the Fiddlehead. Her young adult novel The Secret Diary of Mona Hasan (written as an homage to The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾) was published by Penguin Random House in 2022. She lives in Toronto.