Pratima Annapurna Balabhadrapathruni… I Almost Drowned: One Girl’s Body Remembers

Posted on November 29, 2015 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

I Almost Drowned: One Girl’s Body Remembers

A vase of lilies toppled,

tossing me back

into a twenty year old memory.

I choke

on the flowers

my skin mottled, the water darker,

only the lights on the pier

to salvage the self from sinking

into the murky underbellies of night.

Fish, tadpoles, larvae

memories dance with flecks of dust.

…Someone stole life from in here &

moved it

…with a pitcher of lemonade

poured it into a glass

and shook me awake.

It made my hair dance around

like dry hay.

Pratima Annapurna Balabhadrapathruni is a writer, poet and artist from Singapore. In the summer 2014, she participated in the Advanced Non-Fiction Seminar conducted by the International Writing Program, Univ. of Iowa. She enjoys interviewing poets and writers from her website is wordsatnine.com

Pratima Annapurna Balabhadrapathruni… Candy is Bad

Posted on October 11, 2015 by randomlyaccessedpoetics

Candy is Bad

…., a lollipop is something sweet and sour stuck in a mouth that cannot open out the jaws in an outcry of anguish, or clench teeth in disgust. Candy fills spaces between painful instances and slithers citrusy sugar down the throat. Such cramped quarters. A cobweb glows in the dark and sums up Halloween.

Pratima Annapurna Balabhadrapathruni is a writer, poet and artist from Singapore. In the summer 2014, she participated in the Advanced Non-Fiction Seminar conducted by the International Writing Program, Univ. of Iowa. She enjoys interviewing poets and writers from her website is wordsatnine.com