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May 28, 2023
Candle Mirror
Candle Mirror, M.C. Escher, 1934

Dilara Sümbül is a writer from San Francisco and student…

They are unearthed by their own absence, seen only in the slain rims of dreams where we used to hold mirrors to see behind us, so long and loved. All of it is lost, so it could be written now. Perhaps I retrace instead of improvise, curve a pen with inherited hands. They could have read this, too. Knelt down in borrowed knees, rustling fabric they know how to weave like I know how to write this. What hands can do passed on, like so many eyes we open to each other. Enfolded into kin patterned hands, these halls still stand, cut down in their prime, for this silence is also music.
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Dilara Sümbül is a writer from San Francisco and student at UC Berkeley. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Flat Ink and a prose reader at the Farside Review. Her work has been recognized by The National YoungArts Foundation. She was born in the Mission District as the daughter to two dervishes, an accountant and a teacher, and is the descendent of Maraş, Istanbul, Almaty, and their literature. More of her work can be found at dilarasumbulwriting.com

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