Bio: Seref Ha’Qol (they/them) is a third-year theology major and environmental studies minor from South Pasadena. “I love all kinds of poetry, but my biggest influences are the Beat poets, Rumi, and Yusef Komunyakaa.” Ha’Qol is also a musician. “I strive to convey tempo, melody, and key change. When I write I feel like I’m recording my own experiences through sensually explicit metaphors that interact with one another,” they said.
Poems:
Disrobing in a Moonlit Fog (Ghazal)
Fire or water will see this life’s end
But oh! How smothering should be this wife’s end
A mother, bed to breakfast, & earrings hanging low
The burning angel’s hair has brought this dyke’s end
Choked by unsung aquariums
Nebulous clouds will see this flight’s end
A kiss on every forehead, basil-berry sweet
Oh, to be the first one who quiets the night’s end
Pink-blue syncopation deep beneath percussive chords
Rocky-punch sardonyx sings the hike’s end
Yet until the last warm bath
Obscures a brilliant white end
Seref knows no holy soil
God will never see their wife’s end
