In a tin can
of breathing
sardines
she sat hunched
in the wake of light
just to slither
into the air
of rust
eating away
every molecule
of breath she
owned and body
she wished
she owned
to fit in
another ship
shelved
in the dark
with price labels
and towering hopes
of a land
that will set
her free where
she belongs
eventually.
Mayank Chugh is a biologist and diversity activist at Harvard Medical School, Boston, as well as a poet and an artist. On a journey to share his unpublished works with the world, he has been the selected poet at Through These Realities, a New England art installation project 2022 challenging the narratives of mass media that invalidates experiences of people of color, with forthcoming work in Spry Literary Journal. He has served as a reviewer for the Harvard Review in fiction. Mayank is currently working on a poetry collection, this poem being one of those.
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