Candy Crane
My brother Joshua lost interest in Walmart's toy crane at eight, shortly after he gained enough hand-eye coordination to manipulate the metal claw....
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....
