Serena Alagappan
Serena Alagappan is a recent graduate of Princeton University where she studied poetry under Tracy K. Smith and served as the Editor-in-chief of The Nassau Weekly. She is currently studying Social Anthropology at Oxford, through a Rhodes Scholarship, and working as a poetry editor of the Oxford Review of Books. Her writing has appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Scientific American, The Oprah Magazine, Hobart, The James Joyce Quarterly, The Oxonian Review, Porridge Magazine, and is forthcoming in The Colorado Review.
Embruns
You prefer red in photographs, blue in
real life. I like all the things you describe:
weeks waiting for clouds in Abu-Dhabi,
the way blackberries somersault with ice,
how light recoils from a chaotic flame,
a lens that blurs the world, then sharpens it.
This summer will bear days distended, slow,
and if I should forget what came before,
so be it. Let all of that simmer then
go, like a bruised joint itches sweet, and sore.
You know a word for the mist from wave breaks.
I want a word for pleasure all remade.
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