Only Flying - Bhagat, Brook

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Résumé :
Only Flying is about mammoths, triumph and riding; cancer, dancing, and disappearing; falling and remembering where you were born and what you were looking for; the red stone of the beloved and how it burned through the Earth to find her; climbing out the window; stealing magic pants and maybe getting away with it; secret floating meadows and dreaming horses held by thin strings; Hail Kuan, full of face, and how she did get away; the left eye; us as pieces finding the phonograph of loneliness at the bottom of the sea; things found digging; the woman in the horse's eye; the mother of the world as a kangaroo; the softness of surrender; the shadow goddess and her peahen on a fire escape; a very big egg; remembering seven notes and how it killed her; the wounds of the woman I was not following at the grocery store; rebellion at the waterfall you did not choose; cockroaches dressed to the nines; how the goblin king pulled a fast one; the mannequin in the wild; bluegrass buffalo snorting in the dawn; climbing, dying, breaking free and coming back; mothering on Mars; a bonsai blueberry bush; a black widow spider praying the rosary; a vision of the master; crossing over; a chipping sparrow and having to let her go; travels on the magnetosphere; a map, a mandala, and letting them go too; the mother of the world as a cardboard glitter crescent moon; justice; how to build houses on railroad tracks; how not to get your hopes up about poetry; how to remember the thread in a jungle filled with tigers; how to wake up; the lovers as apricot trees; how the river got free; and, of course, flying.

Biographie:
Brook Bhagat's poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and humor have appeared in Monkeybicycle, Empty Mirror Magazine, Harbinger Asylum, Little India, Rat's Ass Review, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies, and she is the 2020 winner of A Story in 100 Words' nature writing contest. She and her husband Gaurav created Blue Planet Journal, which she edits and writes for. She holds an MFA from Lindenwood University, is an assistant professor of English at a community college, and is writing a novel. See more at brook-bhagat.com or reach her on Twitter at @BrookBhagat.