EVERYTHING GOOD IS DYING

By Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi One of three chapbooks produced as a part of Deep Vellum's Central Track Writers Project. Publication Date: August 30, 2019 Biographical Note Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi is the founder of Dark Moon Poetry & Arts, a monthly series spotlighting the creative feminine and non-binary POC energies of North Texas. She can often be found on sidewalks using her typewriter to birtho poems for strangers or in classrooms unlocking the imaginations of children. She has been published in The Texas Observer, Entropy, The Boiler, Anthropology Now!, and elsewhere. Her work has been featured by WFAA, KERA, the Dallas Morning News, and others. Her first chapbook, Moon Woman, was published by Thoughtcrime Press in June 2018.  Description Make a map a poemDraw in pencil so glory can be erasedon paper as space tucks atomsinto a time capsuleNo one will remove its topWe will be fuzzy in God’s memorya dream She had and can’t quite remembera wolf in a fairytalebut which one This cha