Madina Tuhbatullina

Humming Throats

Did the fly drown in the cup already?
Every existence is a digestion—
furniture grazes skin like
fingers soak clouds

Let’s wait for all flies
to cross the swallowing
we can work with what’s left.

 

Madina Tuhbatullina is an international student from Turkmenistan, receiving a Creative Writing MFA degree at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Madina’s work has been published or is forthcoming in New Note Poetry, PubLab, great weather for MEDIA’s anthology and elsewhere. Madina is an alumna of the Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop and Tupelo Press Manuscript Workshop.