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On Hearing Marj Read Her Poem

Shantha Krishnaswamy

Discipline: Literature

 

Abstract:

Last snake year

Marj read her poem, hands knuckled white at her side,

A toss of mane, an angled tilt along the way

To shake loose those vague underpinnings,

Those menacing snake flickers in our eyes;

It takes courage to spill one's guts out

And cover over with a string of syllables

Salt etched, thorn tipped; deliberate pain

Relived in dredging from our earth bosoms,our own.