Phoenix

A frothy sea rocked endlessly against the shore. A Mumbai Marine Drive like road ran alongside. Many floral arches seemed to be waiting for somebody. I stopped in wonder. In the distance the sun rose above a small hillock encircled by the aquamarine sea. Many voices sang out joyously. It was dawn. It was a vision. That day my broken bones began to miraculously heal. It was months since I had flown off that roof and fallen like Icarus. I knew I had been touched by the divine.  Like Lazarus I had risen from the dead. Soon I walked again. 

Bio

Roopali Sircar Gaur, Ph.D. is a bilingual poet-performer, writer, environmentalist, and social justice activist. Roopali taught English at Delhi University in India. She has written for peer-reviewed journals, and served on academic conference panels worldwide. Roopali’ s poems have been translated into Hindi, Bangla and Telugu. Her poems are also housed at Stanford University’s Digital Humanities initiative, Life in Quarantine: Witnessing Global Pandemic, and in the University of Bath’s Transnational project. She is the Consulting Editor for Different Truths, an online global participatory journal, and the Poetry Editor for the Aspiring Writers’ Society