Through 100 pages of 'Poetry as Evidence', Outlook presents a selection of poems and verses that have moved us, and we feel these serve as evidence of our bleak times and lives. The poem below is the 54th from the series.
A woman squats
As she sifts
Through a pile
of bricks –
Yesterday
This was her home.
Hamraazraaz1950, Anonymous
(Hamraazraaz1950 is an anonymous poet on Instagram who has amassed a community of 1,500 followers for their poems about instances of oppression at the hands of the government. They share poems on their Instagram page that almost appear as daily news, but in a poetry format.)
