My poetry reading for Tartan Turban Readings , episode 35 ,...

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My poetry reading for Tartan Turban Secret Readings, episode 35, organized by Gavin Barrett and curated wonderfully by Archana Sahni. It was a truly magical evening of poetry and prose with fellow South Asian poets and writers. The first poem I read here is about returning to a Bangladeshi grocery store. Would love it if you listened and shared your thoughts.
(From) RETURNING TO TAJ MAHAL
Before landing here, I think about it for months.
In my mind, the place where all travellers’ dreams gather,
new lists, menus for future entertainment, stew
every day. When I finally step into this walled field
of fish, greens, puffed rice and sweets, this impossible
excess of home, intimate like daily grass once
had been, I am lost. To be in a Bangladeshi
store is to re-emerge to the noise and sweat of
home after eons of submersion under pasty ice.
This tiny, packed-to-the-gills monument of
spices, of fish from Padma, of pointed gourd
and Rangpur lime, paralyzes me. Standing
inert, I read the Bangla print on cardboard fish
boxes. Tapasi, koi, batashi, Rui, Ilish, Kachki.
Deciphering the letters, recommitting them to
memory lets me cross over my foremothers'
rivers. The fish is foreign to my tongue, its
birthplace, the lineage that entraps us both.

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