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From ULR
Issue 11 – Appetite
Questions Frida Kahlo wanted to ask but painted ‘The Love Embrace, the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Diego, Me and Senor Xoloti’ instead
Empty womb's ache, gnawing love's loss, bleeding Earth's wounds, questions reality's fragile veil.
June 15, 2024
Is this love? Is mossy green the right shade for Earth?
Why doesn’t love last? Why doesn’t blood? Why does this longing?
How to paint gnawing? Can’t figure out and yet I paint brokenness, roots—why?
Where did I read about Shiva’s third eye? Did they say it symbolizes rejecting the material world—the illusion of our reality?
Will you, my viewer, notice the drop of milk? Have you ever loved anyone, loved them like I loved Diego, like I’ve loved the children I could never bring to birth? Is love comparable? Then why do I measure his against mine?
Are we gashes on Earth? Is she bleeding to death? Are icons our apologies to the feminine who nurtures us? Is Madonna real? Surreal?
What colour is apology— a ‘never will I break your heart again’ apology? How to mix the right shade of Universe?
Were we too dark for Love, too heavy a burden? Is that why my lap is full but I have an empty womb?
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Arti Jain
Arti Jain is a poet, an award-winning spoken word artist and an author. She lives in Doha, Qatar. Her work has appeared in The Kali Project, Kindle India Magazine, Gulmohur Quarterly, The Hooghly Review, Muse India, Poems India, Epistemic Literary, BTWN and is forthcoming in Porch LitMag and National Flash Fiction. She has authored two books: And all the Seasons in between (Ukiyoto Publishing, June 2021) and Don’t Climb on The Bullock Cart (Parakeet Books, U.K. 2023). She writes and performs poetry in English and Hindi.