triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh guest editor: Jenny Ward Angyal
theme: Earthsongs
childhood meadow
where I learned
to soothe myself
in the slowed time
of whispering grasses
—Dru Philippou
Under the Bashō, September
Most beautiful. What a tanka
long into spring
i rake a few rusted leaves
from the young cherry
praying that freedom prevails
in the form of new fruit