Sucheta
Poetry Prose Plants Parenthood Psychiatry (mostly mothering)
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Marking grief (opens the original)
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It has been a summer of mark-making.There is a freedom in thinking of what you are doing as making marks- it takes you away from the frightful pressure of having to make art. Marks do not need to come together in an exact replica of the thing your eyes can see. This is very much not a pipe. Nor are these the woods, nor are they my daughter and her grandmother on the floor doing a puzzle. These here are marks: a lateral entry into the present moment, an immersion in the texture of the visual worl
Disposing of the dead (opens the original)
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I. Banaras.This town, as old as time,Sells salvation to the dying.A holy river runs its course,With more than just physical force.Its water on your skin,Can deliver you from sin.The plains it leaves behind,Can feed all of mankind.But are left instead,To tolerate our dead.Two banks lit up with embers,Prayer lamps, and bodies dismembered.Funeral pyres light the way,From dusk to dawn of every day.The skull is hard to burn, I hear-(As a woman, they won't let me near).In this land
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