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Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya). A winner of the 2020 Leonard A. Slade, Jr. Poetry Fellowship, siya has received fellowships from VONA/Voices and Las Dos Brujas writing workshops and grants from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council of the Arts. His work appears recently or soon in the Watch Your Head (Coach House) and Pandemic Solidarity (Pluto) anthologies, as well as in Apogee, Quiddity, Solstice, Tinderbox, Witness, and elsewhere.

BATAAN DEATH MARCH AS TAROT CARD: NINUNO NG RATTAN by Hari Alluri

Wednesday, 14 April 2021 by Hari Alluri
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                           After Jana Lynne Umipig  

Capitulo lullabye. I dreamscape mesmerized 
              by ruination sky. Inordinate and restful like 

forgetfulness. 
                           At wreck. 

                                          Catch me in the morning 
and I fleck. As in, as shock, 

              the intro only 

                                                        masquerades: we’re in the middle since. At play, at effervesce 
glow-tide my destination, journey hurts my name: 

                                          don’t be questing me, don’t labyrinth my style. I pathway 

like gamayan, macadamia frog-leg in a rice paddy with lime. In agarbathi 
              smoke—I float. Kalabaw-

                            English when I shop. Chop 

because I’m hungry, chop chop like 
                                                                      the rendezvous’s the pathway and the crossroads 

                                            what you smuggle. I put this on your blood, 
dapple skulls with ancestry and chime. Straggle, grandchild, 

              if you want to live.

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