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The Living Wane into a Crescent Moon

India’s Covid-19 lockdown was ordered in four phases.

By Kanika Ahuja
Poetry | Poetry Tuesday, poetry
October 25, 2022

1 After the obituaries published in the New York Times (May 27, 2020) to commemorate the lives lost to the pandemic.

Kanika Ahuja is a poet and educator from New Delhi, India, and an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Purdue University. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee and the winner of Quarterly West‘s Inaugural Contest in Poetry. Her work appears, or is forthcoming, in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Quarterly West, and elsewhere. Find her on Twitter and Instagram: @kanika0326.

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we dog eating people / eating off each other / bear the vaguely dog / sounding name stairs
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i want to banish the shame/ write it in a book to be banned,/ take the banal, grow a banana/ tree of new knowing
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O whose chant do I hear in these halls recalling my deeds, or my debts, the structure / of the cancer room, a storm that once wiped Laos clean of sin a thousand years ago?