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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Sreshtha Sen is a writer from Delhi, India and one of the founding editors of The Shoreline Review, an online journal for and by south asian poets. She studied Literatures in English from Delhi University and completed her MFA at Sarah Lawrence College. Her work can be found published or forthcoming in BOAAT, Bitch Media, Breakwater Review, Hyperallergic, The Margins, Meridian and elsewhere. She was the 2017-18 Readings/Workshops fellow at Poets & Writers and currently lives and teaches in Las Vegas where she’s the 2018 BMI Phd Fellow in Poetry.
Poets Resist
Edited by Sarah Clark
December 9, 2018
Edited by Sarah Clark
December 9, 2018
Notes on Tense
In this time zone, I am another country
at night. It took me eight months to learn
to sleep American, my body at battle
with borders. In Bangla, the word for
yesterday is kalke which also means tomorrow.
Of its etymology,
I only remember my brother
blaming a god who changed
language to get out of a promise
something like how yesterday, C said
“Marry me.” And I said “tomorrow
we can find other ways to stay in this country
I promise” which also means “Do I even want
to stay until tomorrow in a land I cannot sleep in?”
Of its usage, I have nothing to offer except the same sun
setting on my mother’s morning but I know yesterday
the news guessed the death of our planet & we’ll forget
tomorrow and yesterday we continued to forgive
white men who will return to dark violence tomorrow
meaning every day we wake to different worlds
this earth slowly moving towards water and war.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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