Dear Cousin, these moments of inscription
accept as memorial, shards stranded
numbering on the line of days:
10226.8, 1985–2013
always reoccurring,
June is
ritual
all around us
digital:
age of staccato,
already the epistolary is cliché:
everyone addresses
someone, these letters
remain un-
sent
testimony
that space between
tear and
terror
about the body
they will tell us,
move on
Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle that includes poetry, fiction and essays. Work from thecanadaproject appears in literary journals, newspapers and anthologies, including The Vancouver Review, Geist, Poetry Is Dead, SubTerrain and the Georgia Straight. The first completed series from thecanadaproject is a book-length poem, children of air india (Nightwood Editions, 2013) about the bombing of Air India Flight 182.
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