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MacQueen’s Quinterly: Knock-your-socks-off Art and Literature
Issue 27: March 2025
Tanka Prose,  
Anomalous: 67 words
By Kala Ramesh

 

Mirage

 
A layer of peppered sand is all we see on this desert 
stretch. Undulating like the sea, wave upon wave, 
it feels never-ending. 
				Never-ending was our desire to 
walk this challenge, until our legs, now tired, and our 
throats, now parched, begin to beg, to question ...
Then we spot: 
		     an acrobat! 
		     a village girl balances 
		     on her bare hip 
			     an earthen pot 
		     of tilted liquid twilight 

 

 

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