by Brook Bhagat You show up in the afternoon. She hasn’t done her hair, and shadows hang in triangles under her eyes. The gray robe that used to be so soft is pulled tight and held hard. She props open the frosted screen door with her bare foot. “Why would you bring a cake on […]
Author: Brook Bhagat
Brook Bhagat is the author of Only Flying, a poetry collection from Unsolicited Press that has been nominated for the 2021 Pushcart Prize. Her work has won contests at Loud Coffee Press and A Story in 100 Words, and it has been featured in Monkeybicycle, Soundings East, Empty Mirror, The Alien Buddha Goes Pop, Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen, and other journals and anthologies. She is a founding editor of Blue Planet Journal and an assistant professor of creative writing at a community college. Read her work and see the trailer for Only Flying at https://brook-bhagat.com/.