Living in Denial
Her braids, train tracks of desire,
write a story headed towards
a destination—an emotional station
where each strand weaves a distance,
pushing her into a hole of loneliness
infested with ants of agony mourning
the noose that leads them to the dark side
of faith where John Malkovich stifles
her unborn with a mute rubber band,
but not a syllable passes between her lips
that look like bruised marks left by cigarette
spikes—the kind growing out of angry
but resilient trees in winters. That’s how
she chooses to live her life—without
any odor of truth passing over her.
SWETA SRIVASTAVA VIKRAM (www.swetavikram.com) is a multi-genre writer and marketing professional living in New York City. She is the author of upcoming chapbook of poetry from Modern History press titled “Kaleidoscope: An Asian Journey of Colors.” Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in several literary journals and anthologies across the US, UK, Canada, Philippines, and India. She is a graduate of Columbia University in New York.
