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Aditi Machado is the author of Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), the translator of Farid Tali's Prosopopoeia (Action, 2016), and the poetry editor of Asymptote. Her writing also appears or is forthcoming in Volt, Western Humanities Review, Lana Turner Journal, Seedings, and elsewhere.
In the market to be a sense is
pealing out the surface areas. A fruit seller
is terse, sagittal. How summer is
a fit expression, as germane as botanic.
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