Before grasping, taking
the pulse,
consider the litigation
Guliz Mutlu
GULIZ MUTLU (1978, Turkey) is a visual artist, classicist, hispanist and museologist. She has a masters degree on the Homeric Family and a PhD on the Peloponnesian War and Euripides from the University of Ankara, Turkey, as well as a post-doctorate degree on Romanticism and Tenebrismo from Pompeu Fabra University, Spain. As a francophone, she is the author of Les Paroles Saphiques (Les Éditions Apopsix, France, 2011). She has been awarded the Prix Renée Vivien (L’Académie Renée Vivien), Grand Prix de L’Écriture Poétique Francophone (La Société des Poètes et Artistes de France), Prix Jean Aicard (Les Amis de Jean Aicard), Prix de la Flore (L’organisatiın Sauvons la Luzerne) and the UNESCO Nosside World Poetry Mention Prize. Her English haikus have been published by The Mainichi, Modern Haiku, Frogpond Journal, The Heron's Nest, and Presence.
From Decarceration by Charline Lambert
Standing at the Empty Mouth
by Abboud Aljabiri,
translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp
He was as calm as his family wanted,
managing a laugh each day of his life
and washing the traces away
with soap and water
