Maya Khosla received the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize for Keel Bone (2003) and awards from Poets & Writers, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in Fog and WoodSmoke, Water: Culture, Politics, Management, and various journals, including Poem, Prairie Schooner, and Wisconsin Review. New poems are forthcoming in The Harper Collins Anthology of English Poetry by Indians.
Dispersal
Oak crickets dedicate their shrilling to the stars: tireless desire pitched into the jeweled universe with the most power a chorus of cells can muster.
Such surges are rooted at…