Hari Alluri (he/him/siya) is author of Tabako on the Windowsill (Brick, 2025), The Flayed City (Kaya, 2017), and the chapbook Our Echo of Sudden Mercy (Next Page, 2022). Word to xwməθkwəyə̓ m, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlílwətaʔɬ peoples and to the Ts’uubaa-asatx Nation, on whose unceded lands siya is seeking – community, collaboration: here, beyond.