the way we write is why we define
for them to write WHITE words
hanging
in disordered dreams
stamp of a gender
atop
the race of friday’s Master
* ‘with a penis/by freud’ is reference to Freud’s theory of pen-penis envy
* ‘friday’s Master’ is reference to the man Friday and his master in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
SHELLY BHOIL SOOD lives between India and Sao Paulo. She was formerly teaching in colleges of Delhi University and Amity University, and at present is given to full-time creative writing. She is working on her first anthology of poems tentatively titled 'An ember from her pyre'. She hopes her writings to sensitise on certain social issues. Some of her poems have featured in Kritya, The Criterion and Indian Voices Volume I, while some are due for publication in journals such as Urban Confustions, Muse India and anthologies in India and the US.
the crow for black for example
and black as blank
and black as blank
for them to write WHITE words
hanging
in disordered dreams
dissected
with a penis
by freud
by freud
stamp of a gender
atop
the race of friday’s Master
on a footnote
are two frogs
buried
in debris
off their hands
and left with little sky
to see from their land
are two frogs
buried
in debris
off their hands
and left with little sky
to see from their land
* ‘with a penis/by freud’ is reference to Freud’s theory of pen-penis envy
* ‘friday’s Master’ is reference to the man Friday and his master in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
SHELLY BHOIL SOOD lives between India and Sao Paulo. She was formerly teaching in colleges of Delhi University and Amity University, and at present is given to full-time creative writing. She is working on her first anthology of poems tentatively titled 'An ember from her pyre'. She hopes her writings to sensitise on certain social issues. Some of her poems have featured in Kritya, The Criterion and Indian Voices Volume I, while some are due for publication in journals such as Urban Confustions, Muse India and anthologies in India and the US.
