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    Aria Curtis

    Spring 2025

    he used to beckon
    bia moohet mibinamet
    come let me look at your hair
    I confuse
    the word moo for hair
    with moon the word mah

    come let me look at your moon 

    hair a natural satellite
    his hands a gentle orbit

    my head cratered
    with its own skin

    I’ve lost my moon
    the hair is full tonight 

    he used to drag
    her by her
    hair the only image
    I have of his violence

    hair is pulled to the earth 

    Aria Curtis is an Iranian-American writer from Atlanta. She holds an MFA from Arizona State University and is the recipient of fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing as well as a 2021 Georgia Review Southern Post-Colonial Emerging Writer Fellowship. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review, the Offing, the Georgia Review, and elsewhere.

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