Poverty sneaks
through her wet garment
on the terrace
she talks to herself cursing
the day she was born and left
to negotiate truths
of gender, sex and adulthood
in the middle class
one-room apartment
physical rigmarole
buries sick delight
hope of wellness
fast and Sunday mass
her dispirited heart
sinks into dusk
and darkness eats
into her delight
Ram Krishna Singh
Ram Krishna Singh, an Indian English poet, has been writing
for over four decades now. He has published more than 20 poetry
collections, including You Can’t Scent Me and Other Selected Poems
(2016), God Too Awaits Light (2017), Growing Within (English/Romanian, 2017),
There's No Paradise and Other Selected Poems Tanka & Haiku (2019),
Tainted With Prayers (English/Spanish, 2020), Silence: White Distrust
(Spanish/English, 2021), and A Lone Sparrow (English/Arabic,2021).
He is active on Facebook www.facebook.com/profrksingh
and Twitter @profrksingh . More at
pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/R.K._Singh
Published in Woolgathering, Issue 2, June 2021
