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Shelly Bhoil Sood

India

Marginalization - Pauline Canlas Wu

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Shelly Bhoil Sood is from Shimla (India) and lives in Sao Paulo (Brazil). She began her poetic journey while in St Bedes College, Shimla. Her poems are anthologied in Indian Voices Volume I, The Poetry of Yoga, Roots and Wings: An Anthology of Indian Women Writing in English, Voices Israel Anthology 2011, Fancy Realm; and in journals such as Kritya, The Criterion, Muse India, Asia Writes, Urban Confustions, Danse Macabre, Froog Croon and Tayo Literary Magazine.

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with a penis

by freud

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gender               atop

the race of fridays’s Master

on a footnote

are two frogs

buried

in debris

off their hands

and left with little sky

to see from their land

on a footnote

are two frogs

buried

in debris

off their hands

and left with little sky

* ‘with a penis/by freud’ is reference to Freud’s theory of pen-penis envy

* ‘friday’s Master’ is reference to the man Friday and his master in Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe