Aster Lit: Anemoia
Issue 2—Summer 2021
A Summer Dream
Ajay Sawant, India
Sparrows with brackish backs
On a hot, hot afternoon hop
stringently in sun pecking grains,
The Lu sweeps the grass to brown,
shadowed partly by fiery Gulmohar;
The gala gates squeal slithering
tar roads.
One hospital white; to next we run
barefooted with a swollen body
The light is harsh, our lips paper cut
yellow-orange fiery fire
The length of Jasmine blooms
is my short daydream
On starry nights like these, my dreams
stand on a thin popsicle stick.
Ajay Sawant is a student and writer in his first year of studying English Literature (British and Commonwealth) and Journalism at the University of Delhi. He currently serves as Editorial Intern at Five South Literary Magazine. In the past, he has been a guest editor at Inlandia Institute's Literary Review. His poems have been published or are forthcoming in Detester Magazine, VAYAVYA, America’s Art & Understanding Magazine, The Caribbean Writer, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Xavier Review and The Louisville Review & Fleur-de-Lis Press. Ajay often tweets at @ajaycycles.
“A Summer Dream” was first published in 2020 by Hawai’i Pacific Review