The Thumbai Flowers and 2 other poems
Memory, a silent cup, confronts patriarchal echoes, navigating grief and tenderness, rooted…
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From ULR
Issue 8 – Kindness
The Fatal Flight
The pigeon, tricked by sky's reflection, struck glass. Its mute shock became a hunched silence.
December 15, 2022
The pigeon mistook the glass for the sky,
rocketing energy hit the window—
the shock was mute.
The bird
flopped on the terrazzo floor blue and polished to mirror the sky.
I looked down briefly from this poem to the flutter
abnormal.
Did not know
anything could be so silent in pain—
a hunched grey cloud.
Imploding cells patterned by hands unlike mine,
palm-sized god in every feather.
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Uma Gowrishankar
Uma Gowrishankar is a writer and artist from Chennai, South India. Her poems have appeared in online and print journals that include Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2020, Poetry at Sangam, City: A Journal Of South Asian Literature, Qarrtsiluni, Vayavya, Hibiscus: Poems that Heal and Empower, Shimmer Spring, Buddhist Poetry Review, Silver Birch Press, The Well-Earned, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Curio Poetry. Her full-length collection of poetry ‘Birthing History’ was published by Leaky Boot Press.