Poetry at Sangam

SangamHouse

 










AGE by Sampurna Chattarji

(or when did she grow so old?)

Can you feel her bones under your fingers?
My arms hold a smaller bundle of flesh
than they did before.
Once, she held me bundled in her arms.
Now, she barely fills the space
between my body
and her embrace.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Sampurna Chattarji’s sixteen books include a short-story collection about Bombay/Mumbai, Dirty Love (Penguin, 2013); a translation of Joy Goswami’s Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2014, 2018); and seven poetry titles, the most recent being Space Gulliver: Chronicles of an Alien (HarperCollins, 2015); Elsewhere Where Else / Lle Arall Ble Arall (Poetrywala, 2018), co-authored with Eurig Salisbury; and – in collaboration with the poet, Karthika Naïr, and the artist, Joëlle Jolivet – Over and Under Ground in Mumbai & Paris (Context, Westland Books, 2018). She is currently Poetry Editor of The Indian Quarterly.