“Refusing March” by Anindita Mukherjee
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Refusing March
By Anindita Mukherjee
The end of March is a madhouse—
Suddenly I have to swallow crinkled cones
with a clenched grin. But I am not alone, a wild
cavalcade puts the whale’s weight on me.
Suddenly I have to count moons for Neap tides.
‘Nep’ which means ‘nipped in the bud’ which
means a fresh wound which means a queen bee
has broken the colony without her hymnal
drone, which means in the end a frenzied hum
has refused April’s march. On such a topical day
My cat purrs—
Copyright © Anindita Mukherjee
Anindita Mukherjee is a poet, translator, and editor. She is a PhD student at the Department of English and Film Studies at University of Alberta. Her latest book, How Silkworms Break Their Eggs: Selected Poems (2024), brings for the first time the Bengali poet Mridul Dasgupta’s works in English. Her poems and critical works have appeared in The Guernica Editions, The Antonym, Madras Courier, The Lake, and The Paris Institute of Critical Thinking, among others.
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