SOUNDING LABO*R

(selected work)

a disobedience dense-dance 

Jasmina Al-Qaisi 

           a dance 

A sounding poem about displacement, for a drained wetland.

                             in between 

A lullaby about a night-shift worker, a guard at the now privatised salt factory who decides to overlook when countless mysterious beings occupy the building he is guarding. 

                       the 

A premonition about girls wearing similar shoes and gossiping while gardening with a pavement construction worker. 

         breaks 

JASMINA AL-QAISI is a poet.