is because modernist writers
used it to death
now books smell
of whiskey, Paris
over a bald mountain
still the curious-eyed
moon remains within
perimeters of reach
if you drive long enough
into dead-end oblivion
this spring it resembles
a ball of crystallization
icier than Antarctica
where penguins gather
in intimate parades
an eclipse has made
everything darker today.
has poetry published in the anthologies The Dance of the Peacock: An Anthology of English Poetry from India (Hidden Brook Press, 2013) and Suvarnarekha: An Anthology of Indian Women Poets Writing In English (The Poetry Society of India, 2014). Her work is forthcoming in Bindweed Magazine, Dying Dahlia Review, Poppy Road Review, Quiddity, Seven by Twenty, and Wild Women’s Medicine Circle. Her poem “At Dusk with the Gods” won the Alfaaz (Kalaage) prize. She is a recipient of the prestigious GREAT scholarship and is pursuing her second postgraduate degree in literature in the United Kingdom.