Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes, 2017), which won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book award. She was the 2017 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. Shirali’s poems and reviews have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Nation, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is the co-editor of Muzzle magazine and an assistant professor of English at Holy Family University.
September 8, 2020 | Poetry
toenail polish warped waxen from sand, you leave
your body behind again—mere rind, edges buzzing
from unsought touch. you end up in a skeleton
September 8, 2020 | Poetry
solo, skirting the rim of our smolder, our ruin,
all lotus bud, bell-beat & drum-song, those many hands &
the severed heads they hold, masc-demonic,
September 8, 2020 | Poetry
system says we’re not in charge of much else
but this. system’s [planter’s raj] & the damn
tea. the Brits sell us, Lipton sells us, Tata
sells us. when are we permitted to unload?
September 8, 2020 | Poetry
in the living room again, i cannot conjure
even the space i inhabit. rain for several
September 8, 2020 | Poetry
reeking of moss & blossom & on the street
i call home, i cannot be sure if i
exist. my thighs press on one another
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