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Meher Pestonji Jan 6, 20230

A body poem by Meher – exclusively for Different Truths. 

Fever!
 
If you come I’ll go walking
over mountains.
 
The sweat that flows
will be a natural function
 
not the shivered release
of viral blackmail.

Picture design by Anumita Roy

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Meher Pestonji
Meher Pestonji is a veteran journalist writing on street kids, housing rights, and communalism while covering theatre, art and interviewing creative people. She has written two novels, Pervez and Sadak Chhaap, three plays, ‘Piano for Sale’, ‘Feeding Crows’ ‘Turning Point’ and short stories. Her first collection of poems will be out shortly.
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