SMALLNESS IS A SIN by Javeria Hasnain (Pakistan, 23)

Did god create

Eve small? Her half-ribcage

full. Why me?

Why me?

What to do with small hands,

small feet?

Small bird,

your small heart

flutters

across the

small

sky,
​
so spaciously.



Javeria Hasnain is a Pakistani poet and writer from Karachi. Her poems and prose have appeared/is forthcoming in Pleiades, Poet Lore, Isele, among others.