Studying Genocide
the way a crack forms
is the same everywhere:
an absolute disrespect
for the body it interrupts—
invasion into hollow space
the voice falls out trailing
a weak smear: wet sound
help no one will know
where we lived, that we leaked,
that no crack is a crack, only
in two dimensions
remember: there’s no reason here
no glue for this and that’s
the only tired physics of fracture
left.
Christy Leigh Agrawal is a native of New York and hails from the mid-Hudson Valley town Hyde Park. She is in her last year studying English (creative writing) at SUNY Geneseo and hopes (despite looming fears of post-graduate life) to pursue a career relating to poetry and civil rights law. She is passionate about the Islamic feminist movement and eliminating stigmas associated with mental illness and addiction.