Azad Ashim Sharma
from Against the Frame
Hew wood
& draw water
what you
told me
hew wood
and draw water
but I was bourne,
bound of land & tilth
hew wood
n draw wa’er
send me down
to the hedgerow’d filth
**
The obliterated habitus
came quick to me
a necrotic metropolis
convivial with sand.
Locution as reception
didn’t feel right on the tongue
bastille boys with sunken eyes
held my face down on the deck.
AZAD ASHIM SHARMA is the director of the87press and author of Against the Frame (Barque, 2017 / Broken Sleep, 2022), Ergastulum (Broken Sleep, 2022) and the forthcoming Boiled Owls (Nightboat Books, 2023). He is a CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck College.