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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Satya Dash’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Passages North, Cosmonauts Avenue, The Florida Review, Pidgeonholes, Glass Poetry, Prelude amongst others. Apart from having a degree in electronics from BITS Pilani-Goa, he has been a cricket commentator too. His work has been twice nominated for the Orison Anthology. He spent his early years in Odisha, India and now lives in Bangalore.
Poets Resist
Edited by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
December 14, 2019
Edited by Sneha Subramanian Kanta
December 14, 2019
The Patriot’s Predicament
you my country you speak in clotting embrace
and muffled whispers I think I’m yours the way lilac air
is the evensong’s bride a wild romance a patriot yearns
but fears to admit your body of earth now mottled
with heckling saffron babies who nibble at your skin
etiquette go up in groggy fumes your cheeks
blow red rum & crass color of guilt policed on kerchiefs
bullying my brow oh the coins jingling in your widening
wounds shaking you up like a barnful of peacocks
you don’t have to take me seriously but I desire
to be remembered in your bouts of lust trust me
power swoons are inevitable when they come leaping
picture my corkscrew neck my rivers of unwashed hair
I’m just one in a big big billion another transfixed twig
pasturing the sun’s halo trying to figure: how does one kneel
how does one worship when knees sugar into litmus water
with every passing shower that scatters your rabid litany
of blood and breasts last time you were at war
I was learning to perfect the flag’s oblong licking the navy
blue of your chakra on history text books from wheels
it spun I remained a parading tongue whetting, polishing
the night’s silken teeth sometimes you blare: what is a person
but a dice with sides of bone & that hurts because
I spent inside you merrily my life what is my etymology
but you you you your salt your stars your rousing rain
please let me win this time losing simply takes good loving
you taught me this country don’t say you forgot this by now
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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