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Rochelle Potkar

Author of 'The Arithmetic of Breasts and other stories', 'Four Degrees of Separation’, and 'Paper Asylum', Rochelle Potkar is an alumna of Iowa’s International Writing Program and Charles Wallace Writer’s fellowship, Stirling. She is the winner of the 2016 Open Road Review story contest for The leaves of the deodar. Her poems Cellular: P.O.W. and Ground up were shortlisted for awards. Her story Chit Mahal (The Enclave) appears in The Best of Asian Short Stories. She is editor of the Goan-Irish anthology, Goa: a garland of poems, with Gabriel Rosenstock.

The Room with a Sea view

Kohl-eyes, lush-hair, skin bathed in glean and two chandelier earrings – those were the remains of her on this wide, soft morning by the looming sea. Jaganlal felt he was on a high ship and soon his building, this bay
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Confluence

Waters when they evaporate, meet… at a global conference, to speak of fish dropouts, obscura of clouds, near-deaths, hydrological dynamics, monocultures, and metals: nickel, lead, chromium, at their beds. The bend is notional: water for coffee, cane, banana, paddy, mills, distilleries, fertilizer
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