Wet lilies rest on the Pontiac. The tarmac is coated in ivory grease, like spilt French fries on the driveway. But underneath, it is red. Maroon like wine. Carmine like the powdered beetle-crushed and squashed between my nails. All the ivory in the world cannot consume the red. It reverberates and bleeds into the dahlias […]
Satvika Menon
Satvika Menon is a young poet from India who was raised in Malaysia and New Jersey. She now resides in Hong Kong. Her poetry has been previously published in Rogue Agent, Plum Tree Taven, Scarlet Leaf Review and the 2021 poetry anthology The Kali Project, among others. As a young woman of colour, most of her poetry is centred on feminist depictions of the world, body and self, as well as themes of adolescence, youth and growing up.