Breathless
(Delhi, April-May 2021)
My city’s rivers have dried, our fish choked.
Here, a funeral burning. The city
gasps for air. No ventilators, sorry. Die
outside hospitals, choking
for breath....
What I Didn’t Understand
Was that everything that you
don’t make proliferates. Foolhardy
to expect the fern to stay put,
not fill in every inch that’s not
full sun....
Midlife Conditional as Crustacean Morphology
Gabriela Denise Frank (Twitter: @CivitaVeritas) is a transdisciplinary writer, editor, and educator living in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has...
