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Excerpt from “Aggrieved”

An erasure of the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016

Poetry | Poetry Tuesday, poetry
July 26, 2022

This is an excerpt from a larger work called Aggrieved, a long sequence of found poetry in the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Act 2016. Following the method of erasure as central to the tradition of found poetry, this excerpt provides a glimpse of abuse in a same-sex intimate relationship that is neither mentioned nor covered in the original text.