Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
the way you have to take off minimum some
of your clothes
or at least undo them or push them to one side
and then you have to lay the groundwork
before you go at it piecemeal
it’s as though the whole shebang was rubber stamped
and time honoured or something
the way you then have to insist and insist
and reiterate again and again your serious point
until the cows come home
and then go out again
and then come home again
it’s as if you’d both done coke or something
on and on repeating the same thing over and over
coming at the same knotty problem from all sorts of angles
it’s like you were both searching for something
some just out of reach bon mot