after Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus // Do you remember that time you dropped a gold ring (your father’s backup token) into a pint of beer? It hissed in a haze of metallic bubbles, threatening to dissolve. The nightclub pulsed with techno beats and migraine lights. You looked at the face across from you […]
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad is an Indian-Australian artist, poet, and improv pianist. Her debut collection, Patchwork Fugue, was published by Atomic Bohemian Press, UK, in February 2024, and her chapbook A Second Life in Eighty-eight Keys won The Hedgehog Poetry Press UK’s Little Black Book Competition in May 2024. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Dai Fry Memorial Award for Mystical Poetry (Wales), and multiple times for the Best of the Net . She lives and works in Sydney on the traditional lands of the Eora Nation.