Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
You can’t watch me though, I told her,
then emerged from the room after
five minutes looking triumphant, pocketing
her money immediately.
She didn’t care she lost the bet. She was
proud her son was a prodigy,
and never figured it out herself. That all
I did was peel and re-arrange
stickers on the Rubik’s cube. Who am
I now? Just a couple of decades piled
upon a charlatan. Someone who withdraws
into himself for hours to peel away
anything that can be disguised as language.
Arjun Rajendran is currently working on his fourth poetry manuscript. He was the Charles Wallace Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling, Scotland in 2018 and is the Poetry Editor of The Bombay Literary Magazine.