Bushra Rehman

Bushra Rehman

Bushra Rehman is co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism and author of Corona, a dark comedy about being Pakistani-American. Her poetry collection Marianna’s Beauty Salon has been described as "a love poem for Muslim girls, Queens, and immigrants making sense of their foreign home--and surviving.” Her next novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, the story of a queer Muslim teenager growing up in NYC, is forthcoming from Flatiron Books in 2022.

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Don’t Spread Mustard Seeds On My Grave

The phone rang, but I couldn’t answer
There were clouds of smoke
curling around my head
I was only real when I 
touched myself.

Skin

Corona, Queens August 1983 It had poured rain and thundered all day just like a…