Everything is Subject to Change
by Aditi Bhattacharjee
A crow has replaced a cuckoo’s egg with its own Someone somewhere has missed their train The human body is still an enigma Triton has rebelled against the solar system 52 the whale has persisted decades in its loneliness There are 112 mysterious diseases One of them claimed my friend There are so many gods Is anyone listening? Oil was once the greatest find I want to believe in an afterlife We are looking for another planet now 8.7 million species inhabit the Earth Time is a human construct that we can’t stop A male sea-horse gives birth I see people praying for a painless end My friend sleeps alone at the Sola-Anna cemetery I am not allowed near her I am the wrong gender There are many legends equinoxes and origin stories Someone is always telling me the right way to live a long & happy life
Aditi Bhattacharjee is an Indian writer currently based in New York. Her work has appeared in Gone Lawn, Lunch Ticket Magazine, Evocations Review, Sky Island Journal, Solstice Magazine and elsewhere. Most recently, her poems have received Honorable Mention for the Paul Violi Prize, and have been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. She is a TIN House alum and holds an MFA from The New School.