Akhila Kolisetty is a writer, lawyer, and feminist policy advocate in New York. Her essays and poetry have been published in Catapult, The Rumpus, Lunch Ticket, Entropy Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Rigorous Magazine, and elsewhere.

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The Geographies of Violence

By AKHILA KOLISETTY

The woman is still wiping blood off her face when a throng of villagers envelops her. You can no longer reach her amid the swarm that surrounds her.