THINGS DON’T FIT

 

Things don’t fit no matter how hard you split

The tongue of calcified speech upon the rider’s beach

The sun beams drift, shedding gold in bits

Slowly, in a fleet, shy away into sleep

Things don’t sleep, so full of deceit

They hector like priests to a room full of cheats

With scalpels do they pry apart the proud miseries of the heart

They rejoice naked, frothing at the mouth

Upon spotting the long-buried bone of truth.

Aishwarya Iyer was raised in India and Bahrain, and studied literature in the universities of Mumbai, Jadavpur and Pennsylvania, before working as an editor of books in New Delhi. Her poetry has appeared online in QLRS, Eclectica, Great Works, a now defunct South African e-journal called Donga, and on the Tumblr page of Berfrois. She lives in Coimbatore.

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