Anju Kishore
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the non-stop screeching of owls on the wet highway the undulating buzz of wheels of wind creaking against something thinly metallic somewhere the lament of a dog or of somebody walled or something free like a eucalyptus tree’s sigh riding the night that races ’round and ’round its dark course of thoughts which nobody would bet upon or even pause to watch for the world must carry on to its own equestrian clock
a prop against
an animated screen
my life
stilled, as it fills
into our past
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.