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Scars

Lissome skin bears violent scars, screaming loudly as they are finally shed.

June 15, 2021

I let them be, as reminders
of your futility, how you often hurl
things at the sharp angles of my lissome body
and sometimes, the things you throw catch at my life
like bullets dodge themselves into blood vessels causing
them to bleed into lusty, loud screams of warm deaths โ€”
you continue to play
a game of hell and paradise
unperturbed, as
I shed my scars.

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Kashiana Singh

Kashiana Singh calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk โ€“ Work as Worship into her everyday. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills from Yavanika Press is a journey that unravels memory through 10 cities. Kashiana currently serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor for Poets Reading the News and her poems can be read and heard on various platforms. Kashiana lives in Chicago and carries her various geographical homes within her poetry.

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