Anandi Kar
Anandi Kar is pursuing Masters in English from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. As a young poet, she has already drawn significant attention of readers and critics. Some of her poems have already been published in journals and magazines like Indian Literature, Scarlet Leaf Review, Indian Review, Poems India, The Chakkar and Muse India. She reviewed some works in translation for the Antonym Magazine and translated Sunil Ganguly’s poem for The Indigenous. She has worked as a content writer for the popular Instagram page “Chai and Feminism.” Kar was born on 19 May 2001.
The Tangerine That Sobs
The highest branch of
the lanky orange tree in my yard
created a cut on the moon.
The drops of light dribble down the
scaly branches slowly like a reptile.
I take a bite into the orange.
It is mellow
and sobs like an infant
Yet,
I bite into it.
A ripe tangerine
that is sad and cannot take no more
jumps from the branch.
Days later,
it swooshes out of the dark waters and
its carcass
is a bland poem that I wrote someday
and am ashamed of.
Immaterial
like ghosts
my poems are wrapped
with the incense of lonely tangerines.