Ashwini Bhasi is a bioinformatician from Kerala, India who is interested in exploring the molecular genetics of shame, trauma and chronic pain through poetry and visual art. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indianapolis Review, RHINO, Room Magazine, Rogue Agent and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2020 CutBank Chapbook Contest and the 2018 William J. Shaw Memorial Poetry Prize from Dunes Review. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, MI.

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Oxytocin

By ASHWINI BHASI

Content Warning: Abuse, Sexual Assault.