Inverse Journal

Saadia Peerzada

Ruinous Time — A Poem by Saadia Peerzada

Saadia Peerzada presents a poem that trails behind the slow passage of the years that are shaped by absence, memory, and quiet and subtle endurance. These verses could as easily be about the unmaking of time that rests upon “a microhistory that tries to put into language an experience that is fragme

I woke up with a poem in my head — Two Poems by Saadia Peerzada

Saadia Peerzada presents two poems that conjure a sense of being in two places or spaces at once, at two different times that collide between thought, evocation and memory. There is the space where a poem seeks to leap into the quotidian and break into its sadness, and perhaps even disrupt its irrem

All This Helplessness, Heaped Over Us Like a Blanket — Three Poems by Saadia Peerzada

Saadia Peerzada presents three poems that are woven together by solitude, transience and momentary reflection. Verses such as these elucidate how poetry can emanate from quotidian situations, from a visit to a grocery store to a moment of transit, to a moment of introspection before heading to class