Photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash
thunder flourish
blossom white
descend through fog
dream glitter static shimmer
now dance into light flare
curtain drop then clap
a clay shell swelling
between bone & matter
spilling over in waves
like the spinning won’t
stop now feel it hollow
& harden then stop
now needle the markings
with a hammer as proof
let it echo against tender flesh
let the ink sink into tissue see:
my brain tattoos
itself on itself
then waits the suspense
of applause a hiccup
thunder then flourish
now blossom & white
call it chronic a body accustomed
to creating pain or call it art
a body accustomed
to creating storm
Suchita Chadha is an Indian poet and prose writer from Canada, currently pursuing an MFA at NYU. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Verge Magazine, and elsewhere.