garba, or womb + lamp, or as in every tradition there is a woman & her body & both are vessels

Raena Shirali is the author of GILT (YesYes, 2017), which won the 2018 Milt Kessler Poetry Book award. She was the 2017 Philip Roth Resident at Bucknell University. Shirali’s poems and reviews have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Nation, the Rumpus...