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Anindita Sengupta

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

S. Erin Batiste
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
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