{"id":12222,"date":"2022-03-27T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=12222"},"modified":"2022-03-27T18:33:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T18:33:12","slug":"rembrants-seascape-mayank-chugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=12222","title":{"rendered":"REMBRANT’S SEASCAPE – Mayank Chugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a tin can
of breathing
sardines
she sat hunched<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

in the wake of light
just to slither
into the air
of rust<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

eating away
every molecule
of breath she
owned and body<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

she wished
she owned
to fit in
another ship<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

shelved
in the dark
with price labels
and towering hopes<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

of a land
that will set
her free where
she belongs<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

eventually.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"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 On a journey to share his unpublished works with the world, he has been the selected poet at Through These Realities,<\/em> 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<\/em>. He has served as a reviewer for the Harvard Review<\/em> in fiction.\u00a0 Mayank is currently working on a poetry collection, this poem being one of those.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a tin canof breathingsardinesshe sat hunched \u00a0 in the wake of lightjust to slitherinto the airof rust \u00a0 eating awayevery moleculeof breath sheowned and body \u00a0 she wishedshe ownedto fit inanother ship \u00a0 shelvedin the darkwith price labelsand towering hopes \u00a0 of a landthat will sether free whereshe belongs \u00a0 eventually. \u00a0 Mayank Chugh [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-12222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-rembrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12222"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12234,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12222\/revisions\/12234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}