my shiver-feathered
fly like prayer
arcing sinking
through the air
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Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar is the author of Black Avatar: and Other Essays and Twin A: A Memoir. He works as a diagnostic radiologist in Westerville, Ohio.
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The Grail Quest
May the poem, grasped and penned, be the Grail
sustaining hearts healed for a spell
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Year of the Rat
Our parents perished in beeping rooms,
Their funerals pixellated: freezing:
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Kicking the Can Down the Road
it has / become the norm / to claim your side / just scored.
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The Neurology of Love
“Starknowing. He places his hand in hers,/ but she doesn’t recognize it. What was love once/ is beyond forgotten now, is never having known”
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‘There Fell a Great Star’
Their shadows flickered and stretched to the west.The future fixed its lidless eyeOn concrete switchgrass, furrows of asphalt.Telescopes, searchlights aimed on highShot the flare of the mind at darkness.We stood on the moon but failed to scryThe star called wormwood. The signal changed, but the
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True Believer
“What men truly want is peace,”Says the last one true prophet.Peace feels so like submissionGood prophets can fool most men.For the rest, there’s the hammer,Followed by a gentle tongue To sweet-talk the wounds. A tongueWorks wonders keeping the peace,But wonder-workers keep ha
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His Vision
I never saw the root of the realIn arboreal flare,Nor witnessed this man walk on water,Nor that one float in air. I sat beneath the bodhi tree;I felt my body itch.Between the true cup and the falseI knew not which was which. My eyes have never blown like fusesSparked black upon a wall,No s