“Something delicate released in my chest, like a gold ring dropping into a bowl of milk”
— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr! (2024), p. 93.
we’re reading Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! in my Literature of/in Diaspora class. This is a response i made in the first part of the book, when Cyrus and Zee are working for a gross old white man & are high on fen ta nyl when Cyrus gets injured. plus some other symbols in there:) it’s a good book, i’m really liking it.

















