Farah Maria Rahman (previously Farah Reza) lives in County Cork, Ireland. Her work has been published in Brittle Star magazine, New Humanist, Huffington Post, Socialist Review, Litro, Tales of the deCongested Vol 1 (Apis Press) and Daily Science Fiction. She was the artist in residence at The Guesthouse Project in Cork for the month of February 2018, where she worked on sound recordings and poetry.

Farah Maria Rahman

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A Church in Bruges

You said it was a Jesuit place.
We lit two candles, thin and cream-coloured.
When we whispered outside,
leaning over our bikes,
it turned out we were both thinking
of our mothers' mothers
as the pale flames
stretched toward the ceiling.