Matt Broaddus

Ibn al-Saghir

No foreigner

built

his

person

he

told

the men

the men

were goods

there was a man

a gift

a horse

languages cannot

be equivalent to the

sound of

awe

Ibadi Extracts

to travel

the Worlds

free

I

make

a circle

abandon

it

Al Hamid al-Gharnati

earth

adjoins

stars

red like

horn with

blood

like

arrows

span

a marvellous

black

inherited

a

body

called animal

the knight and horse

without heads


Matt Broaddus is the author of Deeper the Tropics (BUNNY, 2024). His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Annulet, mercury firs, and The Paris Review. He lives in Colorado and serves as an Advisory Poetry Editor at The Paris Review