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Frank Karioris
Hamid
Lands that once were left,
of people who I left,
though not left behind,
now emerge out of their
temporary abodes.
​
Hamid kept me lingering,
on his covered horse.
The horse is a stand-in
for a country,
and he a stand-in
for a lover.
​
There must be a dictum about
a place’s space in us,
and how when we are there
it is undervalued;
and only afterwards
are we able to see it.
Frank G. Karioris (he/they/him/them) is a writer and educator based in Pittsburgh whose writing addresses issues of friendship, masculinity, sexuality, and gender. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Hong Kong Review of Books, Burning House Press, Back Patio Press, Collective Unrest, Chantarelle’s Notebook, Maudlin House, and The Berlin Review of Books.
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