Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
mornings for voice
Instructions:
1) five
2) four
3) three
4) two
5) one
6) the sky the sky
7) I don’t like this
8) the sky reminds me of
9) (counting helps)
10) of what?
11) humming planes
12) humming
13) planes; they’re coming for me,
14) desert dust clenched around
15) around around
16) defunct air strips
17) we were blessed to have such quiet
18) I wasn’t afraid in the desert, just small
19) black pricking dry blink
20) he, red; she, ultraviolet
21) (the birds that would speak
22) in the mornings when
23) it
24) stuck, the
25) terror /
26) my throat,
27) caught on them,
28) these people who,) don’t say it
29) now, you must
30) breathe
31) must put aside
32) be afraid, again, to
33) love, be, afraid