by S. Rupsha Mitra
I am afraid of such nights,
dimming skies
Burrowing as an open wound,
I never know how this happens, transforming the self – mud soaked,
Tainted, stained with green beads, sea plants, fists of grassy shards
of time hollowed in the belly of an ocean.
I lie, drowned and flattened in the spread,
water above,
a deep longing beneath battering the senses into surrendering,
There is life, there is an unknown darkness brushing by
as strokes of ravaged remembrances,
I am refaced again,
I know nothing other than
the shelled pearls, schools of mustard fish,
a wavering mass of wondrous creatures wandering,
All in the galloping waves,
I remain,
bruising and healing, stilling and parting, as the shattered crystal pieces of ruined love.
© Copyright S. Rupsha Mitra
S. Rupsha Mitra from India loves to experiment with poetry and translations. Her microchap Dandelion Skin has been recently published by Origami Poems . Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Mekong Review, Muse India and North Dakota Quarterly.
Read the Rest of the August Issue
- The Heart Sings A Siren by Ali Trotta
- A Nereid’s Guide to the Underworld by E. Catherine Tobler
- Depths by Thomas Jones
- Mammiwata Bay by David Ishaya Osu
- Only Circles in the Sea by Carlie St. George and Clare McCanna
- Twenty Thousand Last Meals on an Exploding Station by Ann LeBlanc
- An elegy for voices Ariel traded for legs by Agwam Kessington
- Dream by Mila Nowak
- mermaid life by Susmita Ramni
- Mystery of the Deep by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- more fat mermaids by Linda M. Crate
- Waking Dream by Kim Coleman Foote
- Honey and Vinegar and Seawater by Keyan Bowes
- They Will Try to Drain You by Valerie Herron
- The Sea King’s Second Bride by C. S. E. Cooney
- Self portrait as an ocean bed by S. Rupsha Mitra
- Mami-Wata by Tony Ogunlowo
- Underwater Eclipse by Cito Wheelington
- Loving the Other: Hans Christian Andersen and the evolution of mermaid romance in Wester media by Carrie Sessarego
- What Mother Failed to Mention About Dating a Mer-Man by LindaAnn Loschiavo
- I Want to Be Where the People Are: Disability and The Shape of Water by Elsa Sjunneson
- I Am Not Your Tragedy by Carlie St. George and Clare McCanna
- Canto for a Mermaid by William Heath
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