First collection of poems by Payal Yagnik. "Payal Yagnik's Creatures of Thirsty re-creates and permeates the spaces between our waking senses, our lived experiences, and the senses and experiences of the unconscious. In those mutable/mutating spaces percolates love and beauty and wonder and an aching, a thirst, that is hard to fathom. Creatures, human and animal and plant, untamed, unbound in time, rise up, palpable, interact, change, then sink back down, sift away as eyes-and tongues-open again. There are moments of intense revelation-"I was not born to create, I was created to be born. My...