From phrases in the keep
Envious Death watched the coffin. A tune played. The speaker resisted, then…
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Issue 14 – WITNESS
Neck Braced
In a well-worn stance, a man waits, braced, phone held, his skyward gaze seeking.
January 4, 2026
a man stood in the most
well understood stance.
Waiting – maybe.
for someone? on someone?
right palm perched
on his right hip.
left leg out.
heel of his left foot pointed —
perpendicular to the arc of his right.
all knees locked.
his left hand held a phone.
hello hello
his neck within a brace, gaze skyward,
‘skin coloured,’ he’d call it.
his flesh, stretching to fill.
spilling over the seams.
I saw him ten minutes ago.
maybe he’s left.
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Tathagat Chaubey
Tathagat is trained as a cultural theorist and sociologist. He writes about everyday things in a strange way. His academic instruction in ethnography and participant observation informs his poetry, which resembles fieldnotes - a constant bearing witness, a Flâneur-like quality perhaps. He has researched and written about identity, urbanism, nostalgia and migration. He has a B A Hons in English literature from Ashoka University and an MSc in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He admires A.K. Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel, Mary Oliver and T.S. Eliot’s poetry.