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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Lakshmi Mitra is a postgrad student living in India. She has been published in The Rising Phoenix Review, The Fem, and Vagabond City among others.
somnolence
the city closes its eyes, and pretends at sleep / in these
waking moments, this afternoon’s headache rustles / a piece
of syrupy sky / the sugar of pain soothing on half-lids / all things
being similar, be wary of rest / so we are told as children / (rest
is for the day of god) / so we are told now that we’ve grown / (we
who have always been godless) / let this sickness settle
an unguent in the bones / let this sickness settle in my bones.
this, the moon season of no change / the bridges
run viscous with the shadows of dead marutis / and
the water runs strange and white from dirty taps / skin
stretched by scentless soap, yields nothing / rips like a turning
leaf / that reminds me, leaves sizzle at the crematorium
and even / your third eye bleeds / in the sunlight
bitter and runny, scathes the silent roofs.
come now, we lie on unmade beds / too tired to move
we should try perhaps, a finger or a toe, even a breath/
come now.
we are in the mist of a great forgetting / this is the place
we have chosen to die in / this the place / we have chosen
to live in / here, under the endless patience of half-glazed
spitting stars.
Glass: A Journal of Poetry is published monthly by Glass Poetry Press.
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