Where Stories Gather By Karuna Ezara Parikh

There are very few poets, who speak like, for and of us. Parikh’s verse, we admit, is relatable for many reasons. She covers an entire spectrum of feelings, thoughts and experiences. Like Ratna Pathak Shah, in her blurb for the book, shares: “[The poems] they get under your skin right away, but it’s when you read them again that they burrow deeper.” Hope permeates through her collection as we navigate everything from confession to submission, being a loser, and reflecting and reading about what hurts, and what doesn’t. It’s hard to select a favourite from here, which includes both short and long verse, but Becoming is something we have gone back to every time we wanted a gentle reminder or a nudge to continue.
You are not the sum of people you have loved.
You are not the sum of the once you have tried to,
Nor the ones you didn’t but left your mark upon anyway,
Even in your wakeful, difficult, sizzling cruelty,
You are math more dignified than that.
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