• Vol. 10
  • Chapter 11
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So Much Tenderness In My Universe

Sneha Das

The round shimmer of red, pink, and maroon
Is calling me
I am all set
Decked in the bright red jacket
I wanted to twin with the shimmer of red
I walk
Find a ladder
I climb
Find a rope
I climb further
I find a beanstalk
I climb I climb I climb
I reach a flat brown land

The round shimmer of red, pink, and maroon
Is calling me
I walk I walk
No ladder
No rope
No beanstalk
I walk I walk
Frantically

Exhausted
I sit
A palm stretches
Towards me
I get up
Walk tentatively

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So Much Tenderness In My Universe

Sneha Das

Gently place my right foot
Then the left
Right
Left
Right left
The palm is cool
Yet warm

It gently rises
And I am on the moon

Happy
Grateful
Happiest

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