Vulnerability Study

By Solmaz Sharif

your face turning from mine

to keep from cumming

8 strawberries in a wet blue bowl

baba holding his pants

up at the checkpoint

a newlywed securing her updo

with grenade pins

a wall cleared of nails

for the ghosts to walk through

Source: Poetry (June 2014)

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Born in Istanbul, Turkey, to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, and New York University. She is the author of the poetry collection Look (Graywolf Press, 2016), a finalist for the National...

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