Meeting Jibreel - ROOM

Meeting Jibreel
Majda Gama
“Meeting Jibreel” is the honourable mention for Room’s Poetry Contest 2020, as selected by judge Canisia Lubrin.
In my Quranic primer of short, & long, verses
I scrawled in the margins with metallic ink.
I learned the name of an angel, as my body
Shaped a conduit from aya to hand to pen.
I grounded pre-teen words like “cool” & “ok”
While the class chanted the story of visitation
Beneath a palm tree. A woman name Maryam
& the winged Malak whose message
Must have knocked her into his feathered arms
Without doubt or hesitation because Jibreel
Was the messenger & the body of a man together.

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