Bio
Archana Sridhar is a poet and university administrator in Toronto, Canada. A graduate of Bard College, Harvard Law School and a former Fulbright Scholar, Archana focuses on themes of meditation, race, motherhood, and diaspora in her poetry and flash writing. Her work has been featured in The Puritan, The Hellebore, Barren Magazine, and elsewhere.
Archana Sridhar
Shameful
A bear paw claws through brown
paper, a fragile wall between the then
and the now, sharpened to a surprise, this hole
in time exposes white handkerchiefs folded
into thin birds, whose wings float silently by
in the stillness of the moment, their bodies
pressing in on the subway to the office,
memories receding as fast
as the cringe comes.