issue one / serendipity
Abecedarian For Our
Day At The Movies
Divyanshi Dash
Abecedarian For Our
in the theatre, i slept through the movie, woke up
just in time for the interval, for your sloppy
kisses, an abundance of our sweetening
love, for the things that we sneaked in:
mango yoghurt, peri peri jhal muri and
nimbu jeera soda, for the first time
our phones rang at the same time, for this
party (movie date?), for me to say
quesadilla, for you to tease my pronounciation of it, for
running along the aisles in the empty theatre, for
sleeping, again, just in time for
the second half of the film, for you, my
Universe, who somehow fit into this one
valiant and gorgeous person, who let me sip
water from his bottle. it’s time for fall, soon it will be
xmas, and i will wake up for hot chocolate and
you (of course) and maybe we could sneak in a huge
zinger burger next time?
just in time for the interval, for your sloppy
kisses, an abundance of our sweetening
love, for the things that we sneaked in:
mango yoghurt, peri peri jhal muri and
nimbu jeera soda, for the first time
our phones rang at the same time, for this
party (movie date?), for me to say
quesadilla, for you to tease my pronounciation of it, for
running along the aisles in the empty theatre, for
sleeping, again, just in time for
the second half of the film, for you, my
Universe, who somehow fit into this one
valiant and gorgeous person, who let me sip
water from his bottle. it’s time for fall, soon it will be
xmas, and i will wake up for hot chocolate and
you (of course) and maybe we could sneak in a huge
zinger burger next time?
Divyanshi (she/her) believes in poetry as a prayer. Her poetry has been published in Stone of Madness Press, Art of Nothing Press, Ayaskala, The Walled City Journal, Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English and more. She enjoys baking, reading contemporary YA, journaling and dancing apart from writing. Find her on Instagram at monochrromi and have a look at her website https://divyanshidash.carrd.co/.