WHO PAUSED MY COUNTRY?
On a day of shame, a nation's freedom crumbles, its democratic pulse…
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From ULR
Issue 6 – Freedom
TRUISMS
Tainted by ancient truisms, a concrete tongue lights a defiant torch of impurity.
December 1, 2021
Fear matured
in my mouth like concrete.
I couldn’t twirl
my tongue;
it was stuck
in my dialect.
Household
truisms that
you find what
you pay for.
Words spelled
doom. I have
no gods
to venerate.
Our antiquities
were infected;
I sit on thresholds;
light a cigarette,
as a torch
of impurity.
I am tainted
with a touch of
the menstruating census.
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Arya Gopi
Arya Gopi is a bi-lingual poet who works both in English and Malayalam with more than half a dozen published books including five Malayalam poetry collections. Her first English title Sob of Strings was published in 2011.Her forthcoming books are A Biped Mammal (English poems) and After the Kiss (English poems). A contributor to major journals, she has won several awards which includes the Kerala State Sahitya Akademi Kanakasree Award. A PhD Holder in English literature, she teaches literature at Calicut University.