Bio: Kashiana
Singh calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx
talk - Work as Worship into her everyday. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills from
Yavanika Press in 2020 is a journey that unravels memory through 10 cities. She
proudly serves as a Poetry Editor for Poets Reading the News and her voice be
read and heard on various international platforms.
One pond
It is a place behind a house
witness to my walk, everyday
I stare into its shadows, rewinding
untold tales, wondering what ponds
nurture inside their belly,
pregnant with broken dreams
purgatory of missing memories—
voices that spilled
from the dining table
of the home that still stands
tousled awakenings of foggy
mornings. Feeling enough as
the blue whispered at ripples
falling into Grand Canyon depths
swallowed bird bones, its
bottom frescoed with bare tendrils
of swallow tails, worms and insects
sketching rage of the evening light
two autumnal leaves left untamed
possible legacy of branches, the
stems made careless love, caressing
the warmth of savage winter nights
do all ponds —
even those that loom large
between countries, simmer
inside them, such rhythms?
Geography
frosted windows
-
like a cartographer
I trace your
face
swimming
among coral
reefs -
my wrinkled
toes
emptiness -
winter succumbs
to a polar
vortex
* Sacred *
Sunrise
How to not catch incoming
breathlessness, that skids
inside air pockets of men
who endlessly worship
open mouths, open hands
upturned vessels towards a
succulent sky, simpering in
presence of shards of light
Sunset
How to permit mornings
into windows, bandaged
rays slanting in branches
scraping voices inside of
startled squirrels, steps
on dewed winter grass
squinting at edge of days
chastened in blind white
I feel your polar vortex! Interesting poems. I can hear you read them.
ReplyDeleteThank YOU! It means a lot to me that they reached you and I know what you mean by polar vortex
ReplyDeleteYour geography and topography come to fecund life.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the careful read!
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