A Quiet Root

We comb through hundreds of literary magazines to bring you one stellar poem or flash fiction piece every weekday.

“Middle-Aged Parents” by Faiz Ahmad

sons and daughters are discrete points in a
dilating map, and so it was just the two in their

dense house, middle-aged husband and wife
who contemplate each other’s wilting faces in

the dark,

Read it in Funicular Magazine

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