Jagari Mukherjee - BROKEN

Jagari Mukherjee - BROKEN 

 

 

Jagari Mukherjee holds an MA in English Language and Literature from University of Pune, and was awarded a gold medal and several prizes by the University for excelling in her discipline. Her poems and other creative pieces have been published in different venues both in India and abroad. She is a Best of the Net 2018 nominee, a DAAD scholar from Technical University, Dresden, Germany, a Bear River alumna, and the winner of the Poeisis Award for Excellence in Poetry 2019, among other awards. She won the 2019 Reuel International Prize For Poetry, and the Tagore Literary Prize 2018 for Book Review. Her chapbook Between Pages was published by Cherry-House Press, Illinois, USA, in June 2019. Her latest book to be published is The Elegant Nobody by Hawakal Publishers in January 2020. She is currently pursuing her PhD from Seacom Skills University, Bolpur, India. 

 

 

BROKEN

(after Mary Oliver)

 

I am made of broken pieces

of colored glass,

but all you see is a rose window

with tinted panes…

 

(Is the silver crescent a fragment

of the black new moon?)

 

It is you who believe that

everything that was broken

has forgotten its brokenness.