Poetry by Tasneem Sadok
Overexposed with explosive imagery
the senses can quickly become dulled
to the granular exhilaration
of a grazed hand
Next time a snowflake falls on your cheek
Pause
And savor the icy pinprick
a crystallized remnant of your planet’s origin
Feel it dissolve
into your breathing pores
already restless
to transform again
Tasneem Sadok is an MD-PhD student at UCLA, fascinated by the brain’s intricacies in contexts of dysfunction. As the American-born daughter of immigrants who fled autocracy, her worldviews have always been steeped in countervailing dualities. Poetry has allowed her to find resolution in mind-numbing tensions while defamiliarizing accepted realities with curiosity.
