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SREEKANTH KOPURI

Dark ants swarm around

the bread of my home

its hands start to paralyze

looking down the earth where

the bones and ashes

wait for a reunion.

A wind

that has always been here

from my birth

ruffles the nest

of our questions, that

twitter off in vain

in their last flight.

In this tree of sublime silences

death holds the earth

for a purpose

in which we bury our lost faces

to understand.

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About the Author

SREEKANTH KOPURI is an Indian English poet from Machilipatnam, India. His poems and research articles are widely published in journals like Heartland Review, Nebraska Writers Guild, Poetry Centre San Jose,Underground Writers Association, Word Fountain, A New Ulster. His book Poems of the Void was the finalist for the EYELANDS BOOKS AWARD. Kopuri is presently an independent research scholar in Contemporary Poetry, Silence, and Holocaust poetry.

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