Tag: Kavitha Rath

‘Ganga’ by Kavitha Rath

Kavitha Rath

  In my third eye, I rose out of the Potomac through sun-pierced cloudlight, Ophelianic, offering slippery selkie love to the self-ordained fashionites who reject my cinnamon-laced libation, sacred gift of release.   They trample the ashes in their gauche…

‘Roxana’ by Kavitha Rath

Kavitha Rath

  Some historians call me Roxanne, But my father called me Roshanak, his bright little star. Born in backwater Bactria under the light of a sulfuric acid-laden planet. Though I prefer the civilized Roxana.   At sweet sixteen, I married…