by Shloka Shankar
How We Rewrite History
in october
i become more burn than bush
and waltz myself to water.
they paint you skyward,
ophelia,
but i know just how
you bobbed and bubbled—
how they found you
facedown,
tongue settled deep
in the silt-slit
of earth.
Cailin Wile has a BA in English and French and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in English at Eastern Kentucky University. She works at the university writing center, teaches English, and sometimes writes a bit of poetry.
Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She enjoys experimenting with Japanese short-forms and myriad found poetry techniques alike. A Best of the Net nominee and award-winning haiku poet, her poems and artwork have most recently appeared in Hedgerow, Modern Haiku, Heliosparrow, Kissing Dynamite, and Burning House Press among others. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, its imprint Yavanika Press, as well as Senior Editor for Human/Kind Journal.