A crow sometimes
doesn’t take care
of its blackness.
(a breather)
A nightingale sometimes
doesn’t take care
of its voice.
(a breather)
I no longer care about things, even care itself.
(margins)
Ali Znaidi (b.1977) lives in Redeyef, Tunisia, where he teaches English. His work has appeared in various magazines and journals worldwide. He authored four poetry chapbooks including Experimental Ruminations (Fowlpox Press, 2012), Moon’s Cloth Embroidered with Poems (Origami Poems Project, 2012), Bye, Donna Summer! (Fowlpox Press, 2014), and Taste of the Edge (Kind of a Hurricane Press, 2014). He also authored a fiction book titled Green Cemetery (Moment Publications, 2014) which is in fact the first Tunisian flash fiction collection originally written & published in the English language.
You can see more of his work on his blog at aliznaidi.blogspot.com.
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