What I Want to Say to Every Brown Body
- What I Want to Say to Every Brown Body
We have been taught to look away, and often.Remember the sacrifice a country asks of you.Labor is not defined as labor until a currency.Your mouth will become the shape of distancebetween two countries. The countries will askyou to be close to fire. Before you forget, youwill again one-acquaint with fire. What you callmigration, I call rebirth—traverse long enoughon water and you will erase longitude decibels.The death of imagination will be the final death.Somebody has to clean the blood after a war.There will be a singing among the lost bodies.We have been taught to look away, and often. [End Page 8]
Sneha Subramanian Kanta is a writer from Canada. She was the recipient of the inaugural Vijay Nambisan Fellowship 2019. She was the Charles Wallace Fellow writer-in-residence (2019-20) at The University of Stirling. An awardee of the GREAT scholarship, she has earned a second postgraduate degree in literature from The University of Plymouth. She is the author of the chapbook Ghost Tracks (Louisiana Literature Press). She is the founding editor of Parentheses Journal. www.snehasubramaniankanta.com
