DEEP FALL
Sara Karim
northern lights
four olympic buildings
erect
waves of
honey piss
drooling down
the exterior
four fingers
cracked around the nails
pink blood
inside
a rippled hole
pulsate
a whisper echoes
through a hollow
carcass
Sara Karim is originally from Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan and currently a child and adolescent psychology student at Southern New Hampshire University. “deep fall” is inspired by the Northern Lights buildings in Nur-Sultan. Her poetry has previously appeared in Prometheus Dreaming, Cathexis Northwest Press, The Underground Journal, The Light Journal, Blue Monday Review, and The American Aesthetic. Her work is forthcoming in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Storm Cellar Quarterly, and Santa Fe Writers’ Project.