How I know my lover is a poem

Kashiana Singh Posted On February 9, 2021

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I touch you, speaking in

this moment

as if you

would guide me

through the whorls of

beginnings

slowly carrying me

to the roasting of corn

on an open hearth

you were like that

specific air
present, burning

with toasted kernels
as we sat around in laughter

tugging at wheat stalks, and
our shirt sleeves

fingers daydreaming

you are again

wearing a crisp linen today

I touch you

stretching this moment

escaping
into shallow sounds of

beginnings, your musk
makes me ponder

at the aperture of

our black hole

I stay festooned to

our sky

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Kashiana Singh

Kashiana Singh calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk - Work as Worship into her every day. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills from Yavanika Press in 2020 is a journey that unravels memory through 10 cities. She proudly serves as an Assistant Poetry Editor for Poets Reading the News. Kashiana lives in Chicago and carries her various geographical homes within her poetry. Her poems can be found on Rattle, Poets Reading the News, Visual Verse, Oddball