“White
By Fareh Malik

White Hydrangeas
(A haiku for each petal)

Ivory flowers
sprout in the graveyard near me
soil-bound miracle

This ground is neutral
apparently this is so
all I know is not

Dirt sits on a son-
a boy, thousand times unearthed-
who looks just like me

Bouquets mask his name
this world is not meant for us
still, white hydrangeas


Poems in Passage

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Picture of the White Hydrangeas poem taken on the Toronto subway in April, 2025.

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