Anju Kishore

Alchemy

It’s just before dawn. The world is full of the sea’s roar.


star-strewn sky

the child forgets

to ask questions


A hint of gold appears on the horizon, and proceeds to skim the waves, row by row. I step into the bounce of the sea’s hemline.


first dance

the universe twirling

on a gull's wing

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About the Author

Formerly a finance professional, Anju Kishore is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a published poet, and an award-winning editor of numerous free-verse anthologies. Her book of poems inspired by the Syrian civil war, …and I Stop to Listen (AuthorsPress, 2018), was well received. Her poems are part of many anthologies and journals.

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