Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
Stuffed to capacity, cheeks
extend impossibly
to accommodate fifty mines:
primed, spherical,
set to explode on impact. Teeth
fly to teeth. Chatter
damped by centrifugal juice,
spurting everywhere – but mostly
in the right directions:
down the throat, up
the sinuses. Distilling
joyful liquid in tear ducts,
adding grape sugar
to sebaceous glands,
and a squirt, or two,
in the onlooker’s jealous eye,
down his new shirt. The sap
drains, the teeth unclench.
Lubricated muscles power a smile.
The gullet gurgles, and tears flow.