Suchita Parikh-Mundul(India) is a writer and copy editor whose articles have appeared in Femina, The Swaddle, and other magazines. Her poetry can be read in The Bombay Literary Magazine, Kritya, Gulmohur Quarterly, Narrow Road, Outlook India, Yugen Quest Review, Sahitya Akademi’s Indian Literature, and other journals. Her work has also been included in anthologies such as Amity: peace poems, The Well-Earned (both Hawakal, 2022), On Hunger: A Poetrygram Anthology (ed. Helen Cox, 2023), other international compilations, and The Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English 2022-2023 (forthcoming, Hawakal). She lives in Mumbai, India.
English
THE BODY REMEMBERS
There are so many ways
in which the body speaks:
lowered tone, forgotten
lilt, quicker gait,
observant eyes –
each a fraction
of the person you rebuilt,
the one who moved away.
But the body remembers. Bones
know when you return, and old formulae
start to resolve in familiar ways.
When you’re home, the body
who you always were –
yourself, once again.
A KIND OF MIGRATION
To be moved enough
to change
what you once were,
as if walking through
a cemetery, the past
laid to rest, the earth
flowering
with beginnings –
must be a kind
of migration too.