Wildkeeping
written by: Sreemoyee Chanda
She carries the afternoon in her palms,
sticky with sap from a tree she climbed
just to see if the world might look different
three branches up.
She does not know the word girlhood.
To her it is the weight of a lucky rock,
the wind tasting of salt and bicycles,
a chipped marble kept like a museum piece,
a feather lifted from the creek,
the fading ink of a stranger’s name
crooked across her skin.
She moves through tall grass
not like a guest
but like the keeper of its noise,
unaware that the wildness she chases
is the same bright riot
beating inside her chest.
Sreemoyee Chanda is a young writer and poet from Kolkata, India, who began writing at the age of twelve. For her, writing is a way to express what she cannot always say out loud, a quiet connection between herself and the world around her. Inspired by Sylvia Plath and Rupi Kaur, her work explores girlhood and womanhood with honesty and feeling. She writes about the silences people carry, the quiet struggles, and the emotions that often remain unspoken.
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