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Sonali Pattnaik

Dr. Sonali Pattnaik is an award-winning poet, academician, visual artist and author of ‘when the flowers begin to speak’ (Writers Workshop). An erstwhile professor and alumna of Delhi University she is widely published in in the area of visuality and gender. Her poetry has been published in international journals including The Radical Notion, The Hong Kong Review and Muse India and anthologised widely.
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Women are Never Hungry

Women are never hungryyou see, through the artists eyesthey are but food, noodle-like,long, voluptuous or nubileand ham-med in,always sitting besideupon but never at the tablewomen are to be consumed. women are never hungryas through the system of servitudethey make and make food,stirring,
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I want

I want to walk my hands swinging long and free if these roads were not cobbled eyes but spun trees flowers would become fences or paths at my feet I want to suspend thought wear old jeans pull that thorn
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