by Isra Hassan

fanjoy labrenz, *Ericeira,* Fujichrome slide, 2021. Courtesy of the artists.

Wander Yonder

ISRA HAssan | Apr 2025 | Issue 44

NOTE: for the best viewing of this poem, read on a desktop or in landscape mode.

i was supposed to make my way

through

but i stood there

the tunnel was there

right there

and dark

so dark

i ensnared air

into my lungs

promised i would keep it

hostage

just for a little while

and so i moved forth

with a respectable speed

and died

a wall

it was a wall

painted like a tunnel

a collision

i became

wet

mucus on a wall

to see such a sight

i don’t know

what it looks like

to see

Isra Hassan is a Somali-American poet from Minneapolis, MN. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and can be found in DMQ Review, Poetry Wales, Poet Lore, Logic(s) Magazine and elsewhere.

Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz, known as fanjoy labrenz, are are artists living and working in Hickory, North Carolina. Together they push the boundaries of the photographic medium as they explore light: reflection, refraction, transmission, continuity, translucence and connectivity, to create conceptual and site-specific work. Most recently their work has been exhibited at the Cain Center for the Arts in Cornelius NC, the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, NC, the Charlotte ArtPop Class of 2023, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and ArtFields 2024. Their project Light in Space received a grant from the United Arts Council of Catawba County for 2023. An abstract of a 2019 project at the Hickory Museum of Art with Corning Optical Solutions was published in the Yearbook of Moving Image Studies 2021 Augmented Images, Büchner-Verlag.