The Size of Dinner Plates
Author: Syna Majumder
About the Author
Syna Majumder uses her life as a student to write about everything stretching out in the future. Her work has won competitions as well as been published in various online literary journals.
Teaser
nine lives ≠ immortality
my face looks like a smashed apricot
my hands flabby failures
the skin around my nails torn raw
as if i’m a hungry girli’m far from that.
i feed myself on imported signals
words that leave as soon as i do
pictures that i could touch
if i weren’t a coward.my insignificance, that’s my last boss
glaring at me from my posters
my framed pictures, my closet
hanging open with everything inside.i’m not hungry. if i were
i wouldn’t be here. if i were
i wouldn’t keep my russian roulette on.landing on your feet doesn’t mean
you’ll never bleed out,
doesn’t mean you’ll never be
origami-folded up in a washroom
deciding whether to blot yourself out,
doesn’t mean you’ll never
feel air going in and out and feel
you’d be so much better without it.i will scream myself hoarse
but there will be a time
when i am nothing and you
are the opposite and i will
keep my chin up
even if it breaks my neck.
The Size of Dinner Plates
Pages: 116
Year of Publication: 2022
ISBN: 978-81-956648-1-8 (9788195664818)Contents
58 poems spread across 4 sections