The Haphazard Geometry of My Body by Shiuli Dutta
They used to fling their words at me, mama, Reckless, harsh and cruel, And I used to suck in my stomach, I didn’t let them burrow into the folds of my flesh. They used to laugh at me, mama, Sounds so sharp, they wounded my spine, I tried to disappear, mama, But their arrows lodged […]
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