KNOT Magazine
Fall Issue 2022
Lisa Suhair Majaj
Love Story
Their love twined up the trunks
of gnarled banyan trees
on a hillside sloping to the sea
It soared with swallows
that whirled and banked
in luminous dusk
Its shifting cadences
traced an intricate pattern
across smooth and broken tile
Its dancing flame
flickered and flared across decades
lighting the winding path
Later, they marveled
how the story became a story in the first place
how it kept on rewriting itself
like the full moon above them
waxing and waning and waxing again
in a sky still glimmering with promise
Lisa Suhair Majaj is the author of Geographies of Light (winner of the Del Sol Press Poetry Prize) and co-editor of three volumes of literary essays: Intersections: Gender, Nation and Community in Arab Women's Novels (Syracuse University Press, 2002), Etel Adnan: Critical Essays on the Arab-American Writer and Artist (McFarland Publishing, 2002) and Going Global: The Transnational Reception of Third World Women Writers. (NY: Garland/Routledge, 2000). She publishes poetry, creative nonfiction and critical essays in journals and anthologies the US, Europe and the Middle East, and has read at venues such as London's Poetry International. She currently lives in Cyprus. (from Geographies of Light)