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Aj rakh

Ancient indigo patterns, guided by a baby's hammock, defy the shifting winds of digital commerce.

June 15, 2021

Ajrakhpur (2001)

Work on it today,
sell it morrow.
Add some more Madar seeds,
make Gaalicho shine below indigo kakar,
place central geometrical trefoil,
gleaming Razzaq directed
as was draped by priest-king
excavated at Mohenjo-daro.
ensure 7-9 pH
modent kala cotton cloth
one in Hardo and other in alum
add variations,
for we lack skills in
digital marketing.

A makeshift hammock for baby Lekhmi
guided his imagination.

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Yamini Dand Shah

Yamini Dand Shah A literary researcher, working as a Research Repository at the Asian Heritage Foundation, an Advisor for publishing houses and Board of studies for English Literature and has Co-Curated, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (Literature) in 2019. Editor of the biography ‘Life on the Edge’ by Paperwall. Poetry segment has the following contribution: READ (Poetry of Dissent from the Margins), Being left behind (Open your eyes Anthology), Phases~Unstory (The Odd Magazine), Bent (Shethepeople.tv), Talking about being boundless (longlisted for U.S. Consulate Poetry Tournament and part of Living Waters Museum exhibit) and a poetry collection ‘Abstract Oralism’ on Kachchh, to be out soon.

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