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Leaving the City + La Diablesse

poetry by Maryam Gowralli

Leaving the City

My mother told me stories of a man who left for the forest and was gifted the speech of tigers, when I drive down empty roads tires probing meaning I see yellow eyes in the flickering headlights.

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La Diablesse

country sojourner, you gaze at me in rough lips psychedelic rum, see i live in the old tales of thick thighed psychostasia. weighting between the self-actualized fat of my body and the flickering of french-kissed soul. see i move

between the reeds of your field notes and bones that suck marrow. drunk euphonious ethnographic pastry, shanties dressed in jazzy belle. everynight grab at me in sway, wakeful sweet-cane sunday.

semi-heifer temptress, clippity clop caustic-cold continual knots, a legend of forever communion i pray. male carrion of blessed foreplay. a decoupage of will-she’s, wont-she’s, and lets maybe eat you whole please.

Maryam Gowralli is a recently graduated student from the University of Calgary, who has completed a BA in English with Distinction. As a Canadian, she draws polyvocal inspiration from her diasporic Trinidadian-Indian and Indonesian tribal heritage. She was an editor for The Quill Magazine and NōD Magazine, with works to be found at The Waking, untethered, and other literary journals. Her poetry collection, Citizenship in Water is forthcoming with That Painted Horse Press (2021).