Safa Khatib is a poet and translator living in St. Louis. She is the author of Instances of Ishtar (Bloomsbury, 2024).
Poetry
Winter 2024
Those Hours
I could say that my pleasure, beneath him, was a meadow, dark in places, brighter in others, and that at the farthest edge there grew pleasure’s more unruly varieties— Rapture. […]
Poetry
Winter 2024
Hotel
Then I was again that vacant room. Guests were various: my death again and beautiful. Then again, in different dress. Once, in a jacquard suit tapped my goat-hoof, looking out […]