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.