Sunday morningWinter 2022-2023 issue.

Martine van Bijlert
Martine van Bijlert is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer who grew up in Iran, lives in the Netherlands and, in between, worked as an aid worker, researcher and diplomat, mostly in Afghanistan.
Selected work (20 publications)
filling the sinkAbsurdity Anthology 2022
this is not a love songAppeared in a pack of cards anthology
I too want to stand in a meadowwww.quartetjournal.com/spring-summer-issue-2023
I keep thinking of the fig
what shall I do today
morning commute
self-portrait as an ancient woodblock print
fenced in and kept safe
How did the fish first get into the pond?
a furnace is a dangerous place
when you come out of a war
winter is coming and we don't know what to do
vertigo
set the world alight
this life we built
and now you’re asked and then you’re told (Kabul, August 2021)
after they hit the city (Grozny, winter 1995)
that was exactly what it was (and two other poems)
He sends me the list of the fourteen dead