Sujatha Menon's poem "Honey Moon"
“I am a British Indian poet, musician and artist based in the UK and editor of Crowstep Journal . My poems have been commissioned by arts organisations as well as being published in print, broadcast on radio and reimagined by artists in various mediums. My first poetry collection, The Glass Puddle, was published by last year. The written and spoken word has emerged from song-writing and performing with the band Satsangi for 20 years. We have been broadcast on radio (BBC) and TV (MTV) featured in magazines such as Rolling Stone and have travelled internationally to share our music.” Honey Moon Sticky, orange and boiled beneath a hole in the Sweet Walla’s shack— shack-attack of asthma glacé, and the road outside wheezes home to the knell of cattle bells. This unstitched edge is where I left you and everything about your name now shy as a distant cousin with similar eyes but not the mouth, nose or gaze. How was I to know about this undoing, like a teaspoon of honey that...