Mouth in a fish tank
I can't choose not to breathe.

The myth of bound feet
Or tempting saffron.

I bloat to fill up
Gas chambers
And bone-china cups

The world shrinks.

Birth...
Never knew you caused
So much pain
I AM NO WOMAN!
Yet each time you are born
I sink
I live
Each time
Knowing one day
Ill die
In childbirth

I slash at ghost wrists
Memory bleeds
You stick like glue.

I scored a foul
Long ago
And the ball hit my head...

You pin me down, still
And resistance flees
Like turtles on the receding wave

Someday maybe
Nut-like Ill crack
Sideways
Opening up to let you leave.

They walled you in Sia.
A billiard ball
I miss the nets
I roll off tables.

They covered you in scorn Sia.
Jack's giant cut his beanstalk
He let his house crumble
He ate the little boy.

They blinded your nipples Sia.
I saw you only briefly
In the bleeding rainbow
Yet yesterday
I tasted milk on my tongue.

A scream tries to flee.
My dewdrops torn in two
The Karma in you
Snakes keep me in check.
Brown blood
A grasshopper army
A decayed tooth...
Loves expensive
And I paid you in screams.

I try seeping through you Sia
I fail.
Ah Sia! You remain glued
So effortlessly,
Scattered across ceilings— I.
Bits even escape through the ventilator
To reach you Sia
Among bodies carved in bronze
You live in navels.
Plasters peel.
HOO LI YA
Am letting you go Sia
In handfuls of flakes.

He left me
Hanging with Christ
Lies come from below
Filling my head...
Cracking it open like an eggshell
My nemesis emerges
On doomsday
He makes sure he is eaten
By Lucifer in a blue jeans.
I destroyed Rome in a day
And now I’m jobless.

ফাটল ধরেছিল আয়নাতে
ঘুণ ধরা কাঠের মত
ক্ষত বিক্ষত হয়ে যাচ্ছিল আয়নাটি

রক্তের পিপাসা জেগেছিল তার
সেই পিপাসায় মাতাল
ছটফট করছিল আয়নাটি

কন্ঠস্বরহীন তার ক্ষিদে
নিজের ভিতরের গলাপচা প্রতিবিম্বগুলোকে
তাই ছিঁড়ে খাচ্ছিল আয়নাটি।

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The Mirror

Infested by mites
Wood-like
It cracked.

Delirious
It desired blood.

Reflections within
Severed, trapped—
Carcasses
Upon which it fed
Its soulless hunger.

Dismembered
I collide with you
At circumcised crossroads.

Assuring
You provide respite
From alien hands.

Beseeching
I look at your summerland
When all I know
Seem reduced to clichés.

Amused
Memory intervenes
And with its fat ugly toe
Sketches the reality door.

Doors

Revolving
You meet them again
On your bed, in your ceiling
They are everywhere
In your silence
The silence of screams, of hatred
Of love
Dried
Trapped
Revolving