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| Lina Krishnan |
L’esquive
Leaf fragments
Gathered grass tufts
New mown earth
And a slim rope, unseen, almost
Green and yellow frisson
Marks its fluid pace forward
Yet staples with a backward eye
The silent watchers, in thrall
Till at last, the bush line reached
Even a snake can exhale
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Bio Note: Lina Krishnan is a writer and abstract artist. Her poems, essays, and art have featured in magazines such as The Sunflower Collective, Shot Glass Journal, Himal Southasian, YAWP, and RIC Journal, and also included in sixteen anthologies. Among them, Scent of Rain, Witness, The Red River Press Book of Poetry of Dissent, and three volumes of the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English. Lina’s chapbook of nature verse, Small Places, Open Spaces, was published by the Blank Rune Press, Melbourne.
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