Night Questions
When does the moon turn full?
When I tell it stories of love.
When does the moon begin to wane?
When I stop speaking of love.
What do you look like in the dark?
A horned, lit, and petrified tree on a shore.
To whom do you turn when in pain?
Credit
From Arrow (Alice James Books, Carcanet Press, 2020). Copyright © 2020 Sumita Chakraborty. Used with the permission of the author.
Author
Sumita Chakraborty
Sumita Chakraborty is the author of Arrow (Alice James Books, 2020) and the Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she teaches in literary studies and in creative writing.
Date Published
09/08/2020