Javeria Hasnain

I’m radical. I see a pear growing 
in daylight, and am delighted for it. 
I imagine the soft pear in the thick of
moonlight, suddenly dewy, desirous
of a mouth. I imagine said mouth &
like that, I am back in the warm bed,
gazing at you the way a muntin gazes
at the full moon, with its smallness.

JAVERIA HASNAIN is a Pakistani poet from Karachi. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Margins, Gutter magazine, Superstition Review, and elsewhere.