Richard Magahiz

The 8,192 names of Fatima

My graduate school advisor would take weeks off to fly to a diving spot or go mountaineering: rich men’s hobbies. This didn’t bother me one bit as I dove into computer code, searching for a glimpse of just one clean peak among pitifully thin puffs of data.

  above leaves or needles
  a cascade
  of white flakes
  for whom falling
  is no tragedy

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About the Author

Richard Magahiz (https://zeroatthebone.us) tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all but one that follows unexpected paths. He wrangles computers as a day job but imagines a time when life might center around other things. He’s back home in California now writing speculative and mainstream poems.