God’s Forgotten Nickname (Sule Sankavva) and 2 other poems
Jasmine-scented names reclaim the sacred, asserting fierce agency and spiritual sovereignty, embracing…
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Issue 10 – The Body
The Idol Worshipper’s Song
Kitten-boned gods, with rain-scented beauty, embrace perishability, melting into love, fragile as our trembling world.
December 17, 2023
When a god opens
his eyes,
blinks,
yawns,
agrees to participate
in love
and perishability,
bring out the sun.
Kitten-boned deities
with eyes like snow leopards,
who smell like
it’s just rained–
hold them close,
treasure them like you would
this wobbling world.
Gods weren’t baked
to be broken.
Gods weren’t cooked
to be frozen.
Gods were made,
like we were,
to melt.
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Arundhati Subramaniam
Arundhathi Subramaniam is the author of four books of poems, most recently When God Is a Traveller (Bloodaxe Books, 2014) and Where I Live: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2009). Her prose works include the bestselling biography of a contemporary mystic Sadhguru: More Than a Life, Penguin and Book of Buddha, Penguin Books (reprinted several times). As editor, she has worked on a Penguin anthology of essays on sacred journeys in the country (Pilgrim’s India), and a Sahitya Akademi anthology of Post-Independence Indian Poetry in English (Another Country). She has co-edited a Penguin anthology of contemporary Indian love poems in English (Confronting Love).