The Switch
A woman's remembrance of vibrant youth shattered by puberty's sudden, shaming, unmagical…
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From Matchbox
Matchbox – October ’24
Cement Wings
Dust motes twirl, heat oppresses, and concrete walls remarkably lift, seeking impossible flight.
October 15, 2024
Three books and a pen mirror purpose on the table; woolly balls of dust fly about like ballerinas; the sofa smells of urine and soap.
Heat sits on us like new uniform.
We have tea with medicines.
The building next-door takes off with cement wings.
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Paulami Sengupta
Paulami Sengupta is an editor and translator based in Kolkata. Her poems (in English and Bengali) and translations have been published in The Dreaming Machine, Nether, Cold Noon, and Scent of Rain: Remembering Jayanta Mahapatra (ed. Ashwani Kumar, Red River). Her recent collection of Bengali poems (under the pen name Anjashi) is titled Bayosindhir Haraf (Boibhashik, 2021). Her first collection of poems in English, Maximum Love in Patel Nagar (Red River), was published in 2023.