Tattered
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Faith is funny.
The universe says
“trust me”, but trust
doesn’t come easily.
These days, like so many
things, trust is tattered,
under-promising, and overused.
Faith requires surrender —
the suspension of reason,
the embrace of what
cannot be named.
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Susan Haifleigh
Susan is an architect by training, poet by design. Her writing explores the interweaving of light and dark. She has been published in the book “Story Medicine”, online and in print in “The Fahmidan Journal”, “Beyond Words Literary Magazine/Berlin”, “The Stafford Challenge Anthology,” “Women Raise Our Voices” and more. Susan won 2nd place in The Chancellor’s Prize and in the Faruq Z. Bey Award. She was selected for the first cohort of the Fahmidan Journal/UK writing mentorship and is currently working on her first full collection of poetry.




