there were two birds
the dapper jay, the early robin
you were blue
I, fire-breasted
the day went haywire
I should have flown
you, loud with need
keeping me with the worms
the ground is not warm
this frosty, winter morning
the dirt
all I know
Sanjana Nair lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter. Previously published in Spoon River Poetry Review and Fence Magazine, she has work is forthcoming in JuxtaProse Literary Magazine and The Equalizer (including a piece written in a new form she’s developed). In a prior lifetime, she was part of a performative series in NYC named Emofru and The Lady Apple. Her collaboration between poet and composer was performed at Tribeca’s Flea Theater as well as featured on NPR's Soundcheck. Currently on sabbatical, she's a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at CUNY.