Potter
written by: Megha Sood
@meghasood16
A ball of sagging clay in your hands
taking shapes
between the ridges of your fingers
getting kneaded by your
bony knuckles of the long taloned hand
those slender fingers
which only an artist adores
You shape and mold me
and put indentations
give shapes to my dreams and desires
and cover up the cracks
the unforgiving time has left in me
You pinch and prick and
accentuate the
beauty laying hidden in my soul
for the whole world to see
in its grandeur
and makes those wavy patterns
those ripples in time
the sweet memories
which stay,
etched in my mind
You baked and caked me in the
hard harrowing oven
to stress those lessons
which infuse the
everlasting shine in me
and makes me a masterpiece
for the world to see.
Megha Sood is an Award-winning Asian-American Poet, Editor, and Literary Activist. She is a Literary Partner with “Life in Quarantine”, at Stanford University. Her widely anthologized poems, essays, and other works talk about her experience as a first-generation immigrant and woman of color. Author of Chapbook (“My Body is Not an Apology”, Finishing Line Press, 2021) and Full Length (“My Body Lives Like a Threat”, FlowerSongPress, 2022). Her co-edited anthology “The Medusa Project” has been selected as a digital payload to be sent to the moon in 2024 in collaboration with NASA/SpaceX.
Latest posts by Megha Sood (see all)
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