celebrate with me, won't you?
a piece of heart packed in a poem
meow my moonflowers.
this poem was speed-written in an Ochre Sky Stories workshop alongside a zoom-screen squares-full of gentlest, loveliest writers. the refrain is a play on Lucille Clifton’s won't you celebrate with me
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won't you walk around GK-2 market get your nose pierced the man with a million tattoos talking to me about mine distracting you from pain needle puncturing your cartilage hunt down rings that fit your vibe pick a star, not too bright or bling but plain white with piercings to sew in yellow string lights rummage through clutter set up the little tree carelessly boxed and put away after months only to make space for another ritual, another season to be put out the day we wake up catch the whiff of hope declare christmas with me?
come it is not late Jesus arrived at midnight churches in secundarabad might not yet feed you cake with me walk to nampally through quiet and terror of trafficlessness pop mouthfuls of flaky parotta dipped in gravy wrapped around tenderly roasted beef come, celebrate with me let tears cleanse our sight hold on to each other with our smallest fingers walk the makeshift bazaar unfolding itself into being every tuesday buy nothing sing the same four lines from silent night for months tell carol stories for days have virginia and her father brocelli hold hearts in a spell break into a cackle when speakers conjure mammootty belting joy celebrate with me the light we shine onto each other even if carol groups no longer ring bells and dance their way home to home even when string bulbs refuse to light up won't you?
thank you for reading, really.
Nowhere Home is a labor of love, a home built on, through, and for stories.
i would love to knock at your inbox with posts, playlists, and pyaar.
Janeman Parvathy, so so beautiful 😍
Had the privilege of hearing this in your soothing voice during the session. Happiest to find it here again in your little corner of the internet 💛✨