Hayden's Ferry Review

ashwini bhasi's you dream of centipedes

—their brief spark of phosphorescence when crushed underfoot. In an endless corridor with windows framing the blue-black waters of Varkkala, you thirst for gravel and rain. Ache for a tearing apart followed by a riotous ascent to the skies. His voic…

Ashwini Bhasi is a bioinformatician from Kerala, India who is interested in exploring the somatics of shame, trauma and chronic pain through poetry and visual art.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Frontier Poetry, The Offing, Hobart, RHINO, Indianapolis Review and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2020 CutBank Chapbook Contest and the William J. Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.