Earthbound Words on a Flight of
Fancy. ETA Uncertain.
Sangeetha Balakrishnan
Illustration by Shanna Cruickshank
My black socks took to flight out of my balcony
and beyond the compound wall. Last I saw, the flight
was ascending behind the Ashoka tree by the wall.
The black socks promised to get me a multihued pair
from their travels to lands far yonder. I wait at the
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