Blooming out of nowhere

by | May 12, 2021 | Poetry

Sunlight is
only collecting
emptiness.

 

How it spills
over cobblestones—
singeing, post-card
stamping them.

 

How it snakes
into my room—
nesting its eggs
on my unread book.

 

Every word it scoops
falls                       apart,
like rocks
into sea-beds.

 

Language
down my
memory.

 

Almost anything
I am given
slips from

 

my hands:

 

mogras,

 

necklace beads,

 

grief.

 

Once in the sixth grade—
my science teacher quizzed me
on the Theory of Evolution.

 

Coughing one or two words—
I fell silent as the ruler
stripping my palms,
its heat lacerating
my body.

 

Like sunlight—
God grant me the strength

 

to keep falling

 

until I am everywhere,

 

everywhere.

 

BLOOMING OUT OF NOWHERE by Trivarna Hariharan

 

 

Photo used under CC. 

About The Author

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Trivarna Hariharan is a gender-queer writer and pianist from India. She has studied English Literature at Delhi University, and the University of Cambridge. She has authored two poetry collections – Letters Never Sent (Writers Workshop Kolkata), and There was once a river here (Les editions du Zaporogue). A Pushcart prize and Orison anthology nominee: her poems appear in Duende, Entropy, Stirring Literary, Whale Road Review, JMWW, The Hunger and others.