Hari Alluri

Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is author of The Flayed City (Kaya) and chapbooks The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel) and Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page). Siya is co-editor of We Were Not Alone (Community Building Art Works), co-founding editor at Locked Horn Press, and recipient of the Vera Manuel Award for Poetry. His work appears in Dream Marrow (Burnaby Art Gallery), Best of the Net 2022 (via Split This Rock), and widely in print and online. linktr.ee/harialluri

SLOW TIME SIMMER; THIS ELEMENTAL BLADE—

By Hari Alluri

SLOW TIME SIMMER Bumbling at thresholds like any, “to god,” I might drop in pidgin tongue on toe. Dearest Adalao, restlessness remains the way I meditate: hopscotch & dream-smoke, trouble-cause & flam. I got those Hi-fi speakers, baby! For listen—that’s what my body is. Cold, gangly & fidget as this city gets when hurt, would …

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