Satya Dash | Cupid steps up | Poets Resist | Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Satya Dash’s recent poems have been published or are forthcoming in Passages North, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Florida Review, Pidgeonholes, Prelude amongst others. He spent his early years in Odisha, India and has a degree in electronics from BITS Goa. He has dabbled with short fiction in the past and been a cricket commentator too. Now he lives in Bangalore and recites his poetry in the city’s cafes.

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Poets Resist
Edited by Michael Carter
August 26, 2019

Satya Dash

Cupid steps up

rabbit heart once full with fascination comes from knowing shapes made fingers inside fingers, lips inside lips discovering touch smelted iron sea’s wreckage lukewarm water rushing femur’s delight gardens erupting hot spring spurts the body more volcano than temple he watched skin unfurl visceral doubles strangeness in kindness distanced from helplessness the body ebbed soundless engine’s burr a world made a world lost arrows preached penetration — pleasured animal last sunbeam’s crimson kissing swirling hummus of wet soil blood flowering reckless in scrapyard guts the soul drank velocity’s myth only metaphors could decipher desire earth years pounding suffered love’s blessing penancing his way its lonely fruits world away peeled shame gods be plunderers plunderers be gods snubbing sunrise on the body’s brine mounting generation’s dusk pillaging moon’s reflected light oh what abomination desire shaved civilization’s curse he returns a fresh vigil scrubbing night’s mosaic hunting new ways to teach conditions for an animal to touch sweet red sting’s custodian arrowless, wingless only gadget waning candle anger nude blush running pale paunch defiant here to show love is no longer an innocent child