Training (sun)glasses
Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar
He perches
his sunglasses on
his forehead
A moment
I dare
I stare rudely
those absent eyes wandering
wondering about
the transient life
of a stranger
who I would avoid before
he pulls the sunglasses
down
and that face
briefly real
vanishes
from view.
Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar teaches education at Keele University and is the co-lead for the ethnography stream for Methods North West in England. His research interests include education and inter/national development, postcolonial studies, ethnography and the politics of knowledge production. He also writes creatively and hopes to bring this interest into his academic practice.
Meet the author: Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar
an interview conducted by Otherwise fiction editor Ewa Majczak.
Adapted from a photograph by Anderson Mancini. Used under CC BY 2.0 license.
