Issue II - Pluvia Literary Magazine

Femin
POETRY
the sun
rises
Jasmin Kaur
& israel drags his feet across gaza’s chest.
settles across her skin & waits empty-eyed for
it to tear
& a white man sits atop amerikkka & calls
brown skin a furnace. says that we consume
each other in smoke & flame. that it is better
we burn each other to ash than intrude on his
property
& a cop in punjab empties out a cartridge.
cleans it out in a young singh’s body & names
it necessity. decides to side with a system that
puts food on the table & bodies in rivers
& a woman floats in space. stares at the earth
as the sun cowers behind it. watches existence
light up in twinkling cities & villages. wishes
humanity could step back to stare at itself.
Excerpt from When You Ask Me Where I’m Going (HarperCollins, 2019)
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