Komal Mathew is a Gujarati American writer from the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College, and her debut poetry collection, For Daughters Who Walk Out Like Sons, won Zone 3’s First Book of Poetry Award.

Grave Clothes

by Komal Mathew

First a fragrance
filled our house:
honeysuckle sweat
soaked in the doors
you touched, the nail
in the tulip garden
where you noticed
the dropping moon
and longed to see it
(once and for all)

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