Jen Mei Soong
a broken melody
Karan Kapoor
“My father the black keys / played all at once.” | Bob Hicok
you whisper / whisky loathes water / you dream to quit / you love your daughter
gambler’s mantra / just one more / even clouds break / after a downpour
no salt in your food / no bloom in the air / god returns / not one of your prayers
withers the man / oppressed by light / liver of tar / spear through the eye
long for the warm / embrace of the river / forgive & forget / look in the mirror
wounds & memory / open the night / a rumor of grief / lurks in your teeth
Karan Kapoor is a poet from New Delhi. They have been awarded or placed for the James Hearst Poetry Prize, Frontier Global Poetry Prize, and Bellevue Literary Review Prize among others. A finalist for the Vallum and IHLR chapbook prizes, their work has appeared in AGNI, Shenandoah, Cincinnati Review, North American Review, Rattle, JOYLAND and elsewhere. They’re an MFA candidate at Virginia Tech, and the Editor-in-Chief of a ONLY POEMS. You can find them at: https://www.karankapoor.net/.