Shloka Shankar
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Opening the Wrong Door
when the wind is right,
talking foxes are a possibility
when my world falls on your compass,
a hole is sliced out of the air
when I’m caught in the wrong current,
I trace the outline of infinity
when I’m a continent of disappointment,
I’m full of contradictions
when the smell of impending rain
is trapped somewhere in my bones,
I fall through mirrors,
standing right back where I started.
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(Note. The poems are remixes of selected words, phrases, and sentences from multiple chapters of Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire. The monoku are culled from individual chapters of and the final visual is made up of chapter headings from the same book.)
Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She loves experimenting with Japanese short-forms and remixed/cut-up poetry alike. Her poems have most recently appeared in Failed Haiku, h&, Poetry WTF?!, Under the Basho, Rogue Agent, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, as well as its affiliated press, Yavanika.
Twitter: @shloks89
https://www.facebook.com/shloks89
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Opening the Wrong Door
when the wind is right,
talking foxes are a possibility
when my world falls on your compass,
a hole is sliced out of the air
when I’m caught in the wrong current,
I trace the outline of infinity
when I’m a continent of disappointment,
I’m full of contradictions
when the smell of impending rain
is trapped somewhere in my bones,
I fall through mirrors,
standing right back where I started.
Not for Sale
Everything fell apart
in a wave of pasts;
the lost and s h a t t e r e d
on this journey
stay
b
e
h
i
n
d
the rest, moving on,
show us the way
(being dead for a while);
a bag of broken wall/
not for sale.
(Note. The poems are remixes of selected words, phrases, and sentences from multiple chapters of Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire. The monoku are culled from individual chapters of and the final visual is made up of chapter headings from the same book.)
Shloka Shankar is a freelance writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She loves experimenting with Japanese short-forms and remixed/cut-up poetry alike. Her poems have most recently appeared in Failed Haiku, h&, Poetry WTF?!, Under the Basho, Rogue Agent, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of the literary & arts journal Sonic Boom, as well as its affiliated press, Yavanika.
Twitter: @shloks89
https://www.facebook.com/shloks89