Keshiki 6: At the Edge of the Wood Evangeline Patterson Khalid al-Masri

Khalid al-Masri

Sai Murray’s poems range wide

and laugh-out-loud observational skills that have won Norah readers across the world

and joined the West India Regiment as a bandsman

He hugged me and maintained a silent gaze

Keshiki 6: At the Edge of the Wood Evangeline Patterson Khalid al-MasriWhen his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child, an unnamed narrator and his son are left to manage by themselves. Instead of absence, what the father and son begin to notice is a strange noise opening up between them, reverberating through their home, their television set, and the books they read at night. The wood outside their home hums with it, too: leaves fall from branches which are already naked, trees wriggle when walked