after Sappho
I.
the song will take a turn
[ ] the song
will metamorphose
[ ]
sound of winds [ ] after
night, the call of an
animal [ ]
left in the trees echo
how familiar [ ]
[ ] vivisection [ ] what was lost
[ ] is here in
another
II.
shape [ ] hummingbirds
[ ] luminosity [ ] leave a candle
on the bench [ ]
orioles [ ] synapse [ ] in chords
the birds pick gusts of
wind & the world
remade [ ] again in symmetrical
[ ] again the
blackbirds
shrill [ ] the onset of spring [ ]
[ ] the flowers push against heaps of
snow
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from the Greater Toronto Area. She is a recipient of The 2022 Digital Residency at The Seventh Wave and the 2021 Robert Hayden Scholarship at Stockton University. She has been awarded the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2019-20) at The University of Stirling. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Pleaides, The Carolina Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal. Website: www.snehasubramaniankanta.com.
