Cousin partition
Lahore, 1960
We have caught a spy
from across the border
the kind of traitor
our teacher warned us of
with brazen suitcases
stuffed with unfolded thoughts
tie her up in the basement
with her own plats
our aunt is looking for her
thinks she’s just hiding
from cod-liver oil.
Laila Sumpton performs her poetry and organises events and workshops at universities, buy xanax online festivals, museums and with various NGOs across the country and internationally. She is a member of the Keats House Poets and is published in ‘Over Land, Over Sea- poems for those seeking refuge’ (Five Leaves,2015). She is co-directing refugee and migrant poetry collective Bards Without Borders.