Rahana K Ismail is a poet from Kerala whose work has been published in nether Quarterly, Verse of Silence and EKL Review. She waits until the line brims and tridax daisies array themselves in casual question marks. She can be reached at rahanakismail@gmail.com when she is done rummaging through the woodsorrel, ironweeds and adiantum with her daughter. You can find her on Instagram: @ra.ha.na.k.ismail and Twitter: @RahanaKIsmail1.
Poems by Rahana K. Ismail: ‘they say you could / map out migration by how / games change hands—hands tiny in hope, / searching a piece of it in the other’.