Mukund Gnanadesikan
Mukund Gnanadesikan is the author of the novel Errors of Omission (Adelaide Books, 2020) as well as the upcoming chapbook Petit Morts: Meditations on Love and Death (Finishing Line Press). By day he practices medicine in California and advocates for human rights causes.
I shall not unclench these fists
if doing so means carrying destruction.
I have never close another’s eyes,
cut the twine that tethers him