Hibah Shabkhez

Anon’s Battle Song

We are the faces of anon
   Huddled and grey and unfree:

We flee before the flood
   We flee before the flame
When our scythes have farmed blood
   We go back home in shame

We are the hands that go on
   Planting in each field a tree.


Hibah Shabkhez is a writer of the half-yo literary tradition, an erratic language-learning enthusiast, and a happily eccentric blogger from Lahore, Pakistan. Her work has previously appeared in Bandit Fiction, Shot Glass Journal, Across The Margin, Panoplyzine, Feral, Literati Magazine, and a number of other literary magazines. Studying life, languages and literature from a comparative perspective across linguistic and cultural boundaries holds a particular fascination for her. Linktree