Kenopsia
a moss-covered house yammering
rain
making yesterday
of desire
I I I the word
will not emerge Koi hook
caught in throat
a woman hunches
at the bus-stop
dust motes rising
into her starfish hands
Ancestors leaving a land
Like (un)handing their selves
A land erzsed from some maps ersatz
Razed I mean erasure
like sturgeon moon
shines on
light falls in sheaves like rice chaff
an important sort
of departure
Light pools / empty carts
abandoned street corners
over/at
rain
making yesterday
of desire
I I I the word
will not emerge Koi hook
caught in throat
a woman hunches
at the bus-stop
dust motes rising
into her starfish hands
Ancestors leaving a land
Like (un)handing their selves
A land erzsed from some maps ersatz
Razed I mean erasure
like sturgeon moon
shines on
light falls in sheaves like rice chaff
an important sort
of departure
Light pools / empty carts
abandoned street corners
over/at
Anindita Sengupta is the author of Walk Like Monsters (Paperwall, 2016) and City of Water (Sahitya Akademi, 2010). Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals such as Plume, 580 Split, One and Breakwater Review. She is Contributing Editor, Poetry, at Barren Magazine. She has received fellowships and awards from the Charles Wallace Trust India, the International Reporting Project, TFA India and Muse India. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Art: Collage / Molly Dunham