From lightless lips, a defiant chorus rises, navigating patriarchal shadows, healing traumas legacy, within the posthuman form.
Cruciverba #2 (Cruciverba #2′ was published in the fourth issue of underblong journal) Read Single →
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m h a l f n e r v e d
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d r u n k o f f
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listen: a girl’s head hangs
from a tree / & all night
her lips hinge their lightless
words upon its leaves /
think of her body / & a bird
inside it / bone perched
on thinner bone / songs
snowed across her veins /
begging to lean along the sky /
break its beakless mouth /
to song
Cruciverba #2 (Cruciverba #2′ was published in the fourth issue of underblong journal) Read Single →
i
w
a
n v
t e
i
m h a l f n e r v e d
y a e
k n e l t d
b n f
o i o
d r u n k o f f
y e t
h
e u
n
n h
i n s i d e m e
g a
h r
s t i l l d
listen: a girl’s head hangs
from a tree / & all night
her lips hinge their lightless
words upon its leaves /
think of her body / & a bird
inside it / bone perched
on thinner bone / songs
snowed across her veins /
begging to lean along the sky /
break its beakless mouth /
to song
Devanshi Khetarpal is from Bhopal, India, but currently lives in New York, where she is a BA-MA candidate in Comparative Literature at New York University. Her poetry collection, ‘Small Talk,’ came out in 2019 from Writers Workshop, and her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Diacritics, Vayavya, and Transom, among others. Her website is: www.devanshikhetarpal.co.
