Belligerent with the nurses I pulled
the feeding tube out of my nose
like a magician pulling out yards of silky red ribbon from
an upturned top hat
The white coats recommended a two-week residential stay at a
physio clinic but I insisted I be sent back home
I felt then and I know today that I have two little daughters
who unknowingly unwittingly are the only gurus I need(ed) for my healing …
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.