Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Clare Pollard she turns a cracked mirror

she turns a cracked mirror on society and asks who gets to control the twisted tales hiding in the wings

physical and spiritual state of consciousness

but the water that flows through many of these poems

the John Bray Award for Poetry

'These lyrically rich

Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Clare Pollard she turns a cracked mirrorComplex, melancholic, and sensual, the late Shereen Akhtars Rabbi Robin is at a continuous crossroads of reckoning with queer, interfaith love, addiction and channeling the expansion of this mysterious darkness and light, in which the speaker invites us to kiss the calligraphy on her skin too holy to touch. The words burn. The words are moot. But Akhtars words themselves ask the reader to give so much more of themselves, to consider and make real a