The Void
Ayça Çubukçu
you,
the void i write into
your silence
is resounding
on the edges of
comings and goings
you make the word
break into
petals
dropping
one
by
one
before my eyes
into
a hall of mirrors
you,
the void
i write
into
your silence is
resounding.
Ayça Çubukçu is an author, academic, and editor based in London, who writes about the operations of “humanity” as an ethical and political concept. After leaving Turkey at the age of 17, she was educated in the United States and began teaching at Columbia and Harvard universities. Ayça currently co-directs the human rights programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology.
