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The Need to Travel<\/strong><\/p>\n with the fan whirling, and my thoughts going backwards<\/p>\n in cycles homewards again. The few rooms that have been mine<\/p>\n I know by heart down to the turtle-shaped smudge on the mirror,<\/p>\n inspiration gathers like dust under the bed<\/p>\n saturated I wait for the night to fall. A screech of an owl<\/p>\n might tear it open, but the moon within the branches<\/p>\n is trapped in clich\u00e9s. I confess my mind is a boomerang that\u2019s fixed<\/p>\n to a vocabulary of the familiar. Pinned to my wall is the poetry<\/p>\n of departures. I should pack my bags now.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sohini Basak<\/strong> is a student of literature at St. Stephen\u2019s College, New Delhi. In October 2011, she won the first prize for poetry in the Unisun-Realiance TimeOut Writing Competition.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n *This poem previously appeared in the chapbook \u00a0the cats will know<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Need to Travel I cannot rhyme the green bird by my window with the fan whirling, and my thoughts going backwards in cycles homewards again. The few rooms that have been mine I know by heart down to the turtle-shaped smudge on the mirror, inspiration gathers like dust under the bed saturated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI cannot rhyme the green bird by my window<\/p>\n