I) vertigOMNI
scotiabank, td,
and cn towers; our sky-
line is an icon.
II) Den Lille Havfrue, Traversing Gristmill Lane
dignity is the
only option, when every
step is agony.
III) “Attention all subway customers on the Yonge-University-Spadina Line:”
passengers recoil
like junkies wakened by gulls
gagging on sunlight.
Rasiqra Revulva is a Toronto-based writer, multi-media artist, editor, musician, and performer. She was an honourable mention in the 2010 Judith Eve Gewurtz Memorial Prize; a runner-up in the 2014 Jane Lumley Prize; and a finalist in untethered’s First Poetry Contest (2015). Her work has recently appeared in The Feminist Wire, The Quilliad, WORN Fashion Journal, Hermeneutic Chaos Literary Journal, (parenthetical), The Puritan, Emerging Writers; and the anthology (AFTER)life: Poems and Stories of the Dead. @rasiqra_revulva