Homage — A Poem by Ahymon Ayoub Khan
In Ahymon Ayoub Khan's poem, the body is rendered as unfamiliar terrain that is unhabituated to itself in verses that treat it “as a site of grief.” The poet indicates that “the weight of grief is so palpable” that “the body offers no resistance” to it, and instead “submits”—as no other recourse is