Vidhu Aggarwal
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Bermuda Triangle 2.5
Possessed by sizzling waves of pirated data!
I’m out of it completely completely out of it!
Mouth seizing at acute angle<s>
Gripped by vertices, cinched and raptured into spasms of algebra,
I mutineer
the labial bandwidth
with mega-
bytes of hexes clouds and drainage.
My tooth and claw in Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Florida. All those I’ve inter-
fered with—satellite, network, cargo-vessel— O the tragic errata
rejiggered into a ghost-ship-carnival-cruise, into my giga girdle
of brig
and barge.
Come swing it up in the climatic Altan-
tic with my bandit
crew-- Holy Grail,
Nosferatu, and Tabula
Rasa,
allstar historic miserables grind-
ing to my geometric mudra grab and mangle,
to the mantra of grand mal.
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Vidhu Aggarwal grew up in the Southern U.S. A Kundiman fellow, she is the founding editor of SPECS. Her work has recently appeared in The Boston Review, VIDA, As[I]Am, and The Missing Slate, and will be appearing in Chicago Quarterly Review and Black Warrior Review. Her book of poems The Trouble with Humpadori (2016) received the Editor's Choice Prize from The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. She is a member of the board of Thinking Its Presence: Race, Advocacy, Solidarity in the Arts. She teaches transnational studies and poetry at Rollins College.