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DIRT ROAD DUPLEX, BY SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA

                                               after Jericho Brown

Forgive me I cannot celebrate spring.
Again, earth renunciates snow for flowers.

                           Earth renunciates snow for flowerings.
                           The diminished hinge of soaring tides

A withering. Landscape of low tides.
Migrant bodies line like flowers.

                           Another spring blooms with bodies of migrants
                           on roadwalks. The language of hunger.

A bilingual overburn. Home and hunger.
Oceanic full tides soften more than snow

                           or the gravel over widening highways.
                           In spring, history can become unwound.

​The recitations of something holy.
Forgive me I cannot celebrate spring.



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Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from Canada. She has been awarded the first Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She is a recipient of The Charles Wallace Fellowship (2018-19) at The University of Stirling. She has been awarded the GREAT scholarship and earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from The University of Plymouth. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal and reader for Tinderbox Poetry Journal.
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