COMMUNION
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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