Tejaswinee Roychowdhury


Hollow




SELF-PRESERVATION





You bricked up a dome.
Cutting people off.
Strangers. Friends. Enemies.
Family—even the imaginary ones.
The silence is sedating.
Soft like fleece. Quilting 
you to sleep in unchartered depths.
You are buried. Sheltered.
Until your membrane chokes,
gasping for air. Parched.
Until you fossilize.

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury is a Pushcart-nominated writer and poet from West Bengal, India. Her work spanning across genres has been curated in eleven countries. Her publications include Muse India, Taco Bell Quarterly, San Antonio Review, and more. Tejaswinee is the founding editor of The Hooghly Review and a lawyer. Twitter: @TejaswineeRC.

 
 

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