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SANIDHYA SHARMA

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To Dr. Danielle Vogel, for teaching us how to make homes in the wilds of poetry.

To my friends, Natalia Maria Gomez-Vazquez Ezra Levy Luna Dragon Mac-Williams Jada Reid Karen Xu Mosab Hamid Ben Togut Khamil Riley Olivia Weiss for acccepting me the way I am, and vibing/laughing with me hard.

To Scott Mescudi, for teaching me how to sink into my body in unforeseen ways.

IF THIS IS ALL THERE IS TO BE KNOWN, LET IT BE KNOWN:

I HAVE SOURED ON THE DISCOURSE

I WANT A FUTURE

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WITHOUT THE INFECTION OF PURITY

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on pointywisp

scimitar:

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lies

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of

Chevrolet

Flamin’ angel. Red bazooka-horn bullet-hunker.

Jungle kill: my Chevrolet.

Roadster rambling.

Smoking sonata of cherry flesh under rubber.

Weight of the world gorges the hollows of metal-spine

Like dropping an artificial limb into a vat of roaches.

Hacked-up last ride. The lilt-swerve awakening of the stick.

bulldoze your

Chevrolet.

Leather cushion wet...

baby’s breath on glass-hearse window...

Radiator beam points WEST

Highway a thin-blue vein.

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SUV RPG Axel-drip of saliva in this All-American

Chevrolet

Boom of furiosa and this Carmine finish.

trunk-split / diamond-crunch Excises a candelabra of sinew

Septic twist in the hour of the trick Dashboard clefts into litanies

of correction --

Symbols of

symbols bursting open

(mental venture)

I start the countdown...

Razor whip

Revving rebel

Dull with all its life

helices that haul me to it / Chevrolet

------------------------------------------Sanidhya Sharma

SEPTYCH

only the multitudes disgorgethe level

-touch the

receding blur.

throb un

throbbing the fizzing-eye-

the basin tear -

cinched sphere -

salt complement.

eye that fucks-

the world-

in wet -

mirror.

thinning boundaryskip of stone -

spray-edge gleam in vernal pool -

surface exceeds -

like rogue arrow -

marrow --

glisten of bone

| सानिध्य ने अपने जीवन में कभी भी प्रार्थना नहीं की |

तो हर कमरे में भगवान क्यों?

| सानिध्य ने अपने जीवन में कभी भी प्रार्थना नहीं की |

तो हर कमरे में भगवान क्यों?

CHARCOAL (def.)

A gentleman whoop-coughed into an embryo. Hiding from the hothothot beneath the hexagonal tipi, hem-dropped igneouscoarse tarpaulin screen on tangent bones. Much like peristalsis, charcoal: The Collard Green in bleeding gut. The riperoundabout of Earth privates.

Intent-struck tree-thrust: The rebirth. Barely a reflection multiplication of lattice-hungry pale flame-beams shattering on chocolate-water bath-houses of dirty Earth mausoleums – staggering on fresh framed Rock Candy Women Fingers: compression carved with diamond-precise wait-times.

Charcoal, eats bile of Circus underbelly: a fire felon. (Fire: Ringmaster’s tall success!

Asphyxiates diamond sinewtricks with Jell-O revisions.)

Trapeze Diamond (woundup,tightrope memoried) brawls Ringmaster: Snap of fine charred tripe-string echo-beckons like Time guitar. Meshwork safetynet rip-reveals vat of building bases. Exit-wound of Earth: slit selected. Aged infant of dimension. Kin of weather-burnt milk. Charcoal, inappropriate blossom of sick cherry. Bosom arrived and gnarled. Pushed around further. And further.