Fatima Malik
Fatima Malik is a Pakistani-American poet with work in The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, and others. Through her poems, she continues to grapple with grief from her father’s passing and stay in conversation with her heritage.
Poetry (translation)
The Vanishing Point of Your Love
The vanishing point of your love – that’s what I want
See how simple I am, and how simple my want
The beauty of a ghazal is its rhyme and its refrain. So I wanted to maintain that in my translation.
Poetry (translation)
کچھ دن کچھ ایسے شروع ہوتے ہیں
میں ٹھیک ہوں۔ یہ بھول جانے کا ڈر
میرے گلے میں اُس لفظ کی طرح اُبھرتا ہے
The original is beautifully economical, yet rampant with personification and metaphors woven tightly into what I can only describe as a very particular, very specific feeling.