TALKING POETRY

Aditi Thorat

Aditi Thorat lives and works in Jaipur on social and development issues. She graduated from the University of Oxford, where she founded a muliti-cultural collective of Carribbean, Asian, African, Latin American writers called Slice ( )Mango. She has published her poems both in the UK and in India in journals like The Oxonian Review, The Little Magazine and others. 

Remember Icarus

Young, pretty,
two guys in tow
she walks down the sea-wall
where kissing touching even coming
close forbidden.

Young, pretty,
she walks into
cavernous sun.
Dark red that singed Icarus's wings.

Write her.
Carve every word on your veins.
Splintered mirror embrace.

The sluiced scent of blood
fresh on the hands.

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