THE RAVEN REVIEW
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contributors
    • Support Us
  • Submit
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
    • Volume I >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume II >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume III >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume IV >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume V >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume VI >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Contributors
    • Support Us
  • Submit
  • Current Issue
  • Archive
    • Volume I >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume II >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume III >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume IV >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume V >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II
      • Issue III
      • Issue IV
    • Volume VI >
      • Issue I
      • Issue II

Algebra

by Purbasha Roy
We wait on either sides of algebraic expression
our variables holding unknown shapes
of all highway metaphors
reflections of what we learnt of distance
sometimes to ease our entanglements
we revise edges to shrivel
something drifting our oblivious expansion
 metamorphosed  to a black hole 
none of our versions wanting to abandon me
compressing our imagined sequels 
 into singularities of loneliness
 when random frequencies of wind
get drawn towards winter gravity
shadow lines of our shapes shall rebound
the way I close doors plunged 
to meanings of unfamiliarities
I was told our futures are our arriving pasts
we keep holding onto

Purbasha Roy is from Jharkhand, India. She is a poet who wants to see this world through spectacles of poetry. She has been published in Bewildering Stories, Teesta Journal, Biscuit Root Drive, and has an upcoming publication in Rigorous Magazine.