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From ULR
Issue 6 – Freedom
UID
Anger grinds between furious fingertips, reshaping identity's labyrinthine lines, leaving a strangely transformed stranger.
December 1, 2021
I grind my anger between
The whitening tips of my
Forefinger and thumb –
Fingerprints furiously fornicating,
Lines changing shape
Like fleeting creases
In a bedsheet
From tomorrow my thumbprint
Will refuse to
Identify me
I might rage again
My fingertips may fuck once more
Their little labyrinths of lines
Sixtynining
Flatlining
Arching
Twisting
Twining
Fisting
Rearranging as they pull away
From one another
Turning me
Into someone I
Am not.
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PART OF A COLLECTION‘mine’ and 3 other poems
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Devashish Makhija
Devashish Makhija has written and directed the multiple award winning films ‘Ajji’ (Granny), ‘Bhonsle’, ‘Taandav’, ‘El’ayichi’, ‘Agli Baar’ (And then they came for me), ‘Rahim Murge pe mat ro’ (Don’t cry for Rahim LeCock), ‘Absent’, and ‘Happy’; has had a solo art show ‘Occupying Silence’; written the bestselling children’s books ‘When Ali became Bajrangbali’ and ‘Why Paploo was perplexed’, a Harper-Collins collection of short stories ‘Forgetting’, the novel ‘Oonga’, and the forthcoming book of poems ‘Disengaged’. He is always under construction at www.makhijafilm.com