K. Srilata is a poet and fiction writer. She is currently foot-loose though not fancy-free. She is sabbaticaling away from IIT Madras, India where she is Associate Professor (English). Her debut novel "Table for Four", longlisted for the Man Asian literary prize has just been published by Penguin India. Writers Workshop, Kolkata recently brought out her second anthology of poems "Arriving Shortly".
She occasionally blogs on http://srilatawriting.blogspot.com/
We are grateful to the author for permission to share her work.► Srilata's Origami micro-chapbook & selected poem are available below.
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Origami Micro-chapbook |
Selected Poem(s) |
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Artwork by K. Ananya |
Somewhere a Skylight Opens
Black birds scatter,
slide off the tresses of a rain tree sunset lit. Something returns to my heart, past rib-cage, blood and bone, something I don’t have a word for. Somewhere a skylight opens.
In the cupped hands of the ocean
lie many rivers. Not a drop spills out the sides of the earth. Something returns to my heart, past rib-cage, blood and bone, something I don’t have a word for. Somewhere a skylight opens.
On looking, I find this thing |
| Acknowledgements: | |
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All poems appear in "Arriving Shortly,"
Writers Workshop, Kolkata—publisher "The Ninth Month: Spent Waiting"
also appears in "Seablue Child"
Brown Critique, Kolkata—publisher
and in "99 Words:
A Collection of Contemporary English Poems"
edited by Manu Dash Rayagada:
Panchabati 2006
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