Pitch Lake life on another planet things we can’t explain ...

Pitch Lake

life on another planet
things we can’t explain
  black tarpaulin
      quicksand              skin
   sulfurous mother
  times change
they stay the same
   the lake won’t end

- Poems from Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) in the latest issue of Vivek Narayanan’s Almost Island, alongside work by Jee Leong Koh, Jibanananda Das and much good company. http://bit.ly/2gklreN