Preeth Ganapathy is a software engineer turned civil servant from Bengaluru, India. Her works have been published in several magazines such as Sparks of Calliope, The Tiger Moth Review, The Ekphrastic Review, The Sunlight Press, Atlas and Alice and elsewhere. Her microchaps 'A Single Moment' and 'Purple'- have been published by Origami Poems Project. She is also a two time winner of Wilda Morris's Poetry challenge.

Preeth Ganapathy

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Stallions

Two sturdy stallions,
the colour of fine rosewood
stand at the edge of the concrete road.
Their necks bow,
muscles ripple through the haze
of smoke raised by city-tyres,
while they graze through spirals of dust
in search of the green coolness
of grass.