Akshaya Pawaskar is a doctor practicing in India, and poetry is her passion. Her poems have been published in Tipton Poetry Journal, Shards, The Blue Nib, North of Oxford, Indian Rumination, Rock and Sling, among many others. She won the Craven Arts Council ekphrastic poetry competition in 2020 and was placed second in The Blue Nib chapbook contest in 2018. Her first solo poetry chapbook ‘The Falling In And The Falling Out’ was published by Alien Buddha press in January 2021.
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I am unaccustomed to loving someone so selflessly, my wasted inheritance, my mother’s regret, my selfish love. Atavism, evolution or a brave new world? Cynicism, lassitude or a product of fear? Like an ocean, I drown them or soothe them but never allow them to make a home. Carried on my shoulders but never in my keeping, disbelief, disillusionment or a memory of loss of someone dear? Floating like seaweed, never dissolving in my solvent, a tide or a constant? My present rhino hide, my now frozen heart, this rigid frontier.
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