BY ANIKA POTLURI
In the dry slant of late
Summer, aliveness is a boy
printing
my skirt
with the stars
little Yash has blown his teeth,
now sour cherry jam
sours at the split of his lip
the seeds of his smile
sown in a hill
a cigarette away
Anika Potluri is a poet from Atlanta, Georgia. She studies creative writing at Cornell University, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Massachusetts Review and Marginalia Review. She was selected as a Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets June 2020 Fellow.
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