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Poetry at Sangam

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The Hottest August

In a dream, my father
was alive elsewhere

with another woman
and son. It was late

in August. On the train
station I felt another

body grow inside me.
I waited, wanted.

The other night
a friend killed herself

standing on the edge
of the platform.

Her face was a catalog
of barely beautiful

things like a landscape
in the present-perfect

tense.

 
← Devanshi Khetarpal