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Desirable Havocs

By Siddharth Dasgupta
Spring 2022 | Poetry

Today, I will draw another equator

through the tropics of my easterly

betrayals. This ambivalence of my skin

—its desirable havoc, its sacred fire—

is where most of my stories are

born, and breathe, their air mingling

with yesterday’s leftover weather,

with the unruly human gardens where

I’ve withered and prospered like

some Old Romantic. With this new

equator, I shall move farther away

from home, but because the earth

is unrestrained and befuddling, find

myself even closer to home. A man

of stories and absentminded weather.

His body moving to the whims

of two desirous equators, accented

and etched like a faraway language.

Siddharth Dasgupta writes poetry and fiction from lost hometowns and cafés dappled in morning light. His fourth book—A Moveable East (Red River)—arrived in early '21. Siddharth serves as Creative Director with The Bombay Literary Magazine, but calls the city of Poona home. You'll find him on Instagram @citizen.bliss


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