Monday, June 28, 2021

POVERTY

 

Poverty

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

http://woolgathering.org/issue2/ram.html

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