Anannya Uberoi
Bio: Anannya Uberoi (she/her) is a full-time software engineer and part-time tea connoisseur based in Madrid. She previously won Ayaskala Literary Magazine’s National Poetry Writing Month challenge, and was nominated for Best of Net in 2020. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bangalore Review, The Loch Raven Review, Deep Wild Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, and Lapis Lazuli. She spends her Sundays in tearooms working as a columnist for The Remnant Archive.www.anannyauberoi.com
Hush
After colors have flowered,embryos woven shapes,and cemented rocks forced into the running rill;
after wild woodlands have returned,townhalls of cities atomized,and yearling whales resurfaced upon water lines;
after peafowls have cried at nightfall,the nerve of hearts cracked fences,and seasons and mistakes slow-rusted to autumn coffee;
after bottled peanuts have tasted fire,barbed wires melted in softer summers,and fledglings fled to leather forests of amniotic joy,
after oaks have hunkered for gifts of beargrass,apple trees basketed their first fruit,and dreamers back in their humanoid forms with flowing wine for lips and bluets for eyes –
reserve your art for the earth alone.
after wild woodlands have returned,townhalls of cities atomized,and yearling whales resurfaced upon water lines;
after peafowls have cried at nightfall,the nerve of hearts cracked fences,and seasons and mistakes slow-rusted to autumn coffee;
after bottled peanuts have tasted fire,barbed wires melted in softer summers,and fledglings fled to leather forests of amniotic joy,
after oaks have hunkered for gifts of beargrass,apple trees basketed their first fruit,and dreamers back in their humanoid forms with flowing wine for lips and bluets for eyes –
reserve your art for the earth alone.
