Souk
by and published in Edition One of Pomegranate
At the fruit stall there
are walls of grapes.
Grapes of a slow, liquid green in heaving
bunches. Hornets play where bees die
from overdoses and the churning heat.
I wonder if there are bees on the Sun.
How sweet their honey must be, how grand
the colour of their wings.
Adham Smart
Adham Smart is the Pomegranate Publicity Officer. He comes from Egypt by way of South London (Adham wants us to say South EAST London, apparently it’s life or death – Ed) and we’re reliably informed that he’s well hard. He’s the baby of the team at seventeen and is finally in his last year of sixth form (eek!). He was an FYP in 2006, 2008 and 2009. He collects foreign languages like planets collect satellites, and is often found writing invisible kanji on his hand.