Lisa Ray Instagram – Be engulfed by these fiery and lyrical poems. I am so proud of your published poetry debut @karunaezara May you always set our inner worlds alight. ….. The Great Indian Rope Trick There is a woman in me rising out of all the ones that aren’t. She is being pulled forth by the oiled plait of her dark hair slithering skyward – will it turn to noose halfway, like a trick? Is it even a sky or a blue glass ceiling waiting sharp, a vicious cloud festooned guillotine. She is being born, lotus-foot-first, running, baby bud feet on cracked earth, she is surpassing six million years of something erroneously called evolution, a pataki, an umbilical cord shooting backwards through time, to chase down the first patriarch and feed him the tough seeds of his daughter’s freedom. She is rising and rising through the fault lines of failed humanity, bursting, like some manic radical stalk through history to seize and scoop through the soil all the ones that aren’t till they come gasping up for the air that’s forever been theirs. … Excerpt from #WhereStoriesGather available now wherever fine poetry can be harvested like chestnuts and folded into your palms 💗 @harpercollinsin