Culmination
by Vasantha Sambamurti
Runestone, volume 5
Runestone, volume 5
Culmination
by Vasantha Sambamurti
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The limit of intimacy
comes from language and
me
umbilical seed
in an earth in an earth in an earth
Somewhere,
it caught me in it,
at the age when the mouth
waters.
Struck
by a great movement,
slowing everything, this
demonstration of difference,
how —
when inexperienced —
you are always young
Vasantha Sambamurti
Emerson College
Vasantha Sambamurti is a senior at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. She is pursuing a B.F.A. in Creative Writing with a minor concentration in postcolonial studies. She is the current co-editor of The Kindling Zine, a publication for Boston-area students to respond to questions of spirituality through art. Her work also appears in Rigorous Magazine, The Underground Literary Journal, and The Best Teen Writing of 2016.