"If the line is a border and a border is a boundary award.

If you left at night.

If you were warned by your neighbours.

If you saw through a hole in the cart..."

The poem was first published by Ignota, as part of the Spells anthology.

Bhanu Kapil writes poetry and fiction. In 2020, she won a Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry (Yale University), and a Cholmondeley Award, also for poetry (Society of Authors, UK). In 2021, her most recent book, How To Wash A Heart (Pavilion Poetry, 2020) won the T.S. Eliot Prize. Kapil is also the author of five other full length collections of poetry/prose: Ban en Banlieue (Nightboat Books, 2016), Schizophrene (Nightboat Books, 2011), humanimal [a project for future children] (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), Incubation: a Space for Monsters (Leon Works, 2006; forthcoming in a new edition from Kelsey Street Press, 2021), and The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001). Currently, she is based in Cambridge, England, where she is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College.