Chitra Ganesh, How to Assemble a Flying Car (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist & Durham Press.
On the Bus
That silky
hair black
and guided
into a slim
river down
her back was
all he could
see—won
dering if she
liked to have it
pulled back
hard and then
her head
when she
was being
fucked—she, turn
ing to look up
at his face
skin tight
around his
mouth eyes
glistening
with something
ancient. Something
battered and
so ordinary.