Two Poems
Painting: Aya El Fallah
By Prasanta Chakravarty
Mewa Monsters
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Fiery Manacled Soul
have you walked in front of those eyes?
if you did
you won’t do again
in those a soul, a fiery hazard
manacled hands
bracelets shut
throwrug knees slammed
not hers
the sockets
her dearest one, a gurgling wad
askew in the anda-cell
Bio:
Prasanta Chakravarty edits humanitiesunderground.org. His new book, The Opulence of Existence, is just published from Three Essays Collective, New Delhi.
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