Those We Love

Anannya Dasgupta is finishing up a doctoral dissertation on magic in seventeenth century England. She also writes poetry, flash fiction, and comments on piles and piles of student papers every week. When she can take a break from writing, she takes photographs, sits zazen, and communes with her goldfish Rex Havoc. Her artwork and writing has appeared at Four and Twenty, Asia Writes, Haggard and Halloo, Lantern Review, and Pirene's Fountain.

Those We Love
By Anannya Dasgupta

I embraced
depth and distance
Even thought to have
fathomed
my longing
only
to find myself
floating on a vast sea,
where we
were all still several islands
separated by the thing
that connects us.

Posted by Annmarie at 5/3/2011 12:20 AM
Categories: today's words
Tags: Anannya Dasgupta love distance islands floating
 

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