Teesta Review: A
Journal of Poetry, Volume 8, Number 1. May 2025. ISSN: 2581-7094
Rags and Riches
--- Shruti
Sareen
Child-eyes, hungry
for love
A longing, A gazing
A mute face
eloquent in speechlessness
Adult-eyes, romantic eyes
Drowning in each other
Coattails, Cocktails
Food fills the belly with love.
Child-eyes fixated on the food
Child-eyes, hungry for love
Moneyed-eyes, lost in each other,
lost to the world, lost to the child-eyes
Rags and riches, by the streetside.
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Bio:
Shruti Sareen
has a PhD in English literature from Delhi University and teaches in
colleges/universities whenever she manages to find a job. Her poetry
collection, A Witch Like You, appeared in 2021. Her autobio novel The
Yellow Wall is forthcoming from Queer Ink Publishers. She is engaged in
writing speculative fiction, love-letters, and of course, more poetry!
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