Ouroboros

By Parveen Keynejad

Ouroboros is a potent chapbook that touches upon the duality of light and dark. The everyday notions of life--people, love, memory, beliefs-- push the boundaries between positive and negative duality.

"European Pears"

Staring out
an Astoria
apartment window
I see
smokestacks
from your city-
façade clouds.
They form
into your face
faking me
fooling me,
feelings once
chained and sunk
at sea
now rusty,
scraping my flakey
fair skin
cutting me.
I never got
that tetanus shot
friends screamed
I should get,
so now your metal
lives in my blood
rotting me
from the inside out
like those European pears
firm strong
golden sweet
just take a bite –
juice drooling into
bitter brown slush.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Unsolicited Press
• Release date: Apr 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9798201169565

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Parveen Keynejad

OUROBOROS

Copyright © 2017 Parveen Keynejad

All Rights Reserved.

Published by Unsolicited Press.

Printed in the United States of America.

First Edition.

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Cover Image: Getty Images

Cover Designer: Kathryn Gerhardt

Editor: S.R. Stewart

ISBN: 978—1947021013

Contents

Me vs. Me

Seeing Self in Spring’s Trees

Feelings, Circa 2010

European Pears

Thoughts in January

Sweets Can Be Sour

Strange How Memory