En cours

Repository, or the biodiversity for which you have no name.
Sacral jawbone. The coalition of dispersed light before dawn.
          Ghost with vigilance for mountainous regions— or pelican
V flight formations. Number, or plectra for rhythm across a mizzenmast.
          Blister, or etymologic pigment for browning leaves in autumn.
Sundial with arcade shadow. Frost azul. An advancement of magnolias.
          Ghost along periwinkle periphery— or relics-store of maps.
Shell, or memoir collection of ocean sounds by the mantle tissue.
          Mercy, or animal veiled into animal among the scent of pine trees.
Exhalation dew. Presage rain in the glittering hour of lath with ivy.
          Ghost breath through fish gills— anchorage for a proximate echo.
Ocean contrapuntal. Lavender horizon over the stilled sky before motion.
          Wolf, or malleable howl in the strata of a forest.
Circumpolar trails. Elderberry tinge sediment of land before water.
          Ghost with symmetry of luminescence— noctiluca scintillans
over the night coast. Faraway, or the illusion of distance in meters.

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Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press). She is the recipient of the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2018-19) at the University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from The University of Plymouth. Her dissertation concentrated on a comparative literature study exploring postcolonial ecocriticism in the fiction and nonfiction of Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Muzzle Magazine, The Willowherb Review, The Normal School, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal. Website: www.snehasubramaniankanta.com