Snata Basu

Snata Basu is a writer based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Her poetry has appeared on numerous literary platforms including The Opiate, Visual Verse: An Online Anthology of Art and Words and Small World City.

Titled 'Loss'

you don't recognise yourself, / everything is lost like a fish in Lethean space. / you have mistaken truth for love again

1m ago

Of longings, of belongings

Women and the earth have to tolerate a lot.  –Kaajal (1965)

5m ago

Devi

The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom, 

6m ago

Look out the windows

In the blanks of muddy moonlight

8m ago

Dawn of new(?) air

But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths

8m ago

Raw Magnolias

This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant

10m ago

Sleepy ghost flight

You have made ice out of my heart;/ we were once nothing–you brutalise me

1y ago

palestine is my grieving mother

rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where  women like me plod one day at a time,

1y ago
September 17, 2022
September 17, 2022

Ritual

Morning sun, and its endearing ardor swathes my spent body, I awake a ghost.

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