12/10/2020 POETRY: ARCHANA SRIDHARFOXES IN MICHIGAN hundreds of pelts drip off a flatbed truck spilling faces and paws velvety tongues within our reach flap in the backdraft to the mouth of the mighty Route 66 their innards still pastel pink like Johnson’s baby oil bottles sticky from slaughter dried musk-laden riverbeds lead us to distant edges splendid piles of matted fur splayed voyageurs just foraged in the woods below hawks’ nests not knowing their future hides tanned, skins cured suspended in a forever-sleep of glass-bead eyes dashed hopes and highway lines Archana Sridhar is a poet and university administrator living in Toronto. Archana focuses on themes of meditation, race, motherhood, and diaspora in her poetry and flash writing. Her work has been featured in The Puritan, Barren Magazine, The /tƐmz/ Review, and elsewhere. Her chapbook "Renderings" is available through 845 Press, and her writing can be found at www.archanasridhar.com.
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