Rivers of red

Rashmi Gowda

Editor's note: This is a short poem on a maoist mass grave found in May of 2011. Rashmi Gowda works for a medical device company in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. She grew up in South India, and moved to the US to pursue her MBA. She has been writing short stories, poems and travelogues for her blog rushwrites.blogspot.com and also worked as co-editor for her school's weekly magazine. Rashmi can be reached at rashmi.gowda [at] gmail [dot] com.

Proudly we fight, yet

We run, we hide

In the jungle’s quiet

But how can we hush

the screams of the dead?

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