LITTLE GALLERY: ROCHELLE POTKAR WRITES, TRANSMOGRIFIED

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• LITTLE GALLERY
• ROCHELLE POTKAR WRITES,
• TRANSMOGRIFIED

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Transmogrified - Poem by Rochelle Potkar

He was first a snake and was in love with her - a she-snake. And then he molted and after he molted he was a turtle and he met another she-turtle and fell in love with her. When he de-shelled after years, he became a four-legged animal, black spots sprouting over his fur, and he fell for a leopard. He moved this way through the jungles, the savannas, the deserts, the skies, through the oceans, the air, the land and beneath it, changing and changing and meeting and falling in love with new she-species.

The lovers he left behind did not change. They were who they were. The same.

They were individualistic so to speak, but now they were also heart-broken and full of hate for him - the one who had left in the middle of, sometimes, passionate love-making.

They had no idea how it was to live so many lives in one life like him.

To take no breaks with rebirths from being mosquito to man.

Sometimes evolution and progress is so fast, blessings and curses are all mixed up, and One.

By

Rochelle Potkar

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COPYRIGHT TO

POETESS ROCHELLE POTAKAR

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about the author

Rochelle Potkar is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in several Indian and international publications.Her book, 'The Arithmetic of breasts and other stories' was shortlisted for The Digital Book of the Year Award 2014, by Publishing Next. She is working on a novel and two collections of short stories. Her book of poetry ‘Four degrees of separation’ is due soon by Poetrywala. She was a writer-in-residence at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, Fall Residency 2015.

She read her poems in Mumbai at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival,100Thousand Poets for Change, Godrej India Culture Lab, PEN@Prithvi, ‘Words tell stories’, The Hive, and The Poetry Club (TPC) : in Hyderabad at Ten Thousand Waves, Our Sacred Space, Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) : in Chennai at Prakriti Festival, The American Library; in Hong Kong at Out Loud, Fringe club, and with the Peel Street poets; in Goa at Goa Arts and Literary Festival (GALF) : and in Iowa city.
She conducts free verse and haibun writing workshops in India.

She lives in the spicy, noisy, tropical city of Mumbai, and blogs at www.rochellepotkar.com.

Rochelle Potkar is a fiction writer and poet. Her work has appeared in several Indian and international publications.

Her book, 'The Arithmetic of breasts and other stories' was shortlisted for The Digital Book of the Year Award 2014, by Publishing Next. She is working on a novel and two collections of short stories. Her book of poetry ‘Four degrees of separation’ is due soon by Poetrywala. She was a writer-in-residence at The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, Fall Residency 2015.

She read her poems in Mumbai at Kala Ghoda Arts Festival,100Thousand Poets for Change, Godrej India Culture Lab, PEN@Prithvi, ‘Words tell stories’, The Hive, and The Poetry Club (TPC) : in Hyderabad at Ten Thousand Waves, Our Sacred Space, Hyderabad Literary Festival (HLF) : in Chennai at Prakriti Festival, The American Library; in Hong Kong at Out Loud, Fringe club, and with the Peel Street poets; in Goa at Goa Arts and Literary Festival (GALF) : and in Iowa city.
She conducts free verse and haibun writing workshops in India.