Unresolved: Wandering with My Pencil and Pen (Habits of Writing 3)

Postcolonial Intimacies
2 min readMay 1, 2022
Bend National Park by Youmna (The place that inspired writing this piece)

I use a pencil to fiddle with the unexpressed. I use a pen to maintain what remains, the memories loved and the lessons learned. But, to reach a point of resolve and departure, I bend the genres of my writing tools, and I use both a pencil and a pen.

My pencil wanders through my veins and the terrains of the unexpressed. What I carefully buried and…

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Postcolonial Intimacies

I write drafts of poetry and short stories about language, education, and war