Why thrust your pump into the lip of a limp balloon
to fill the latex body all the way through
and leave no room for its soul?
As you tease it into a rubber animal
and in doing so choke the neck with so much air
that the four-legged creature bursts
Anum Sattar is a junior studying English at the College of Wooster in Ohio, USA. Her poems have been published the American Journal of Poetry (Margie,) Triggerfish Critical Review, Crack the Spine, Taj Mahal Review, #thesideshow by FIVE 2 ONE: An Art and Literary Journal, Ragazine, Better than Starbucks! The Florida Review, Snow Jewel Journal, Artifact Nouveau, Off the Coast, Strange POEtry, Conceit Magazine, Wilderness House Literary Review, The Weekly Avocet (every Sunday Morning,) Poets Bridge, Deltona Howl and Tipton Poetry Journal. She won the first Grace Prize in Poetry and third Vonna Hicks Award. Whenever possible, she reads her work at Brooklyn Poets and Forest Hills Library in New York City. She was also recently interviewed at Radio Free Brooklyn.
