In the Background

By Archana Sridhar

I did not know that
astral languages I know
but don’t know exist
 
couplets in white script
set to angel melodies
and tabla rhythms
 
woven in cashmere
aquafoam cotton candy
ancestral voices
 
arise from the Self
subconscious Kannada waits
appears and dissolves

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Archana Sridhar is a university administrator and poet living in Toronto. A graduate of Harvard Law School and a former Fulbright Scholar, Archana focuses on themes of race, meditation, motherhood, and trauma in her poetry. Her work has been featured in The Brown Orient and will appear soon in Neon Mariposa.