Coefficients, by Shloka Shankar

The Unexpected Beauty of Imperfect Things, by Lorette C. Luzajic, 2013.

Coefficients

so much of how i think

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n
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s

on stringing
your imperfections
into neutered emotions,

and surgically
placing them alongside
my pseudo-hankering
for this (us) to (not) go awry.

Shloka Shankar

Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer from Bangalore, India. She loves experimenting with Japanese short-forms of poetry such as haiku, senryu, haibun, and found/remixed poetry alike. Her work has recently appeared in Failed Haiku, Otoliths, Poetry WTF?!, Window Cat Press, Random Sample Review, and so on. She is also the founding editor of the literary & arts journal, Sonic Boom.