Arundhathi Subramaniam

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Child’s Play 11 | Trevor Burgess

Parents

They vanish as abruptly

as they appear,

busy perfecting
the art of truancy
when they send you away to school.

They cry ‘wolf’ many times over

but when you turn for a moment,

they melt away,
velvet-pawed, sure-footed,

into the night.

This poem was published in Apr-Jun 2019 issue. It is from her forthcoming book, Love without a Story.

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About the author

Arundhathi Subramaniam is a poet whose 11 books of poetry and prose include When God is a Traveller (shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize) and Eating God, an anthology of sacred poetry. She has worked as a critic, curator and poetry editor, and has written extensively on culture and spirituality.

One Comment

Kartik April 30, 2019 at 10:56 pm - Reply

If you’ve bought the book, and if you’ve read it, please do, read my review of it (more of a study really, of the movement in tone, and style, from her previous book).

You can find it here: https://williamhaztits.home.blog/2019/04/29/from-green-to-purple-movement-in-the-poems-of-arundhathi-subramaniam/