DIRT ROAD DUPLEX, BY SNEHA SUBRAMANIAN KANTA |
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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. |
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.