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  • Dear Crow
  • Samyak Shertok (bio)

this morning toothe papers are black as rainwords burst inside the mouthlike cheap candy or gunshotsno entry or exit woundonly a bluethroated howlof an eye being openedwith a wild honeybee stingthe center foldslike the palms of a girllooking for her brotherthey say at the Maheshwara Yagyawhen Bramha-booned Ravanaravaged the sagesgathered around the Agniit was you who saved Yamawith your dark dark wingsbut dear crowwho do you savein a country where everyone is a godof death [End Page 200]

Samyak Shertok

Samyak Shertok's poems appear or are forthcoming in Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Shenandoah, Waxwing, and elsewhere. A recipient of fellowships from Aspen Words, the Virginia G. Piper Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, he has performed his poetry at TEDxUniveristyOfMississippi. His poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and The Best Small Fictions and received an AWP Intro Journals Award this year.

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