Earthbound Poetry Series: Azad Ashim Sharma (Vol. 1, No. 19)

Published 11 May 2020

Text: Today Young Veteran Walks with Bluebells on the Tricontinental Road, by Azad Ashim Sharma [consisting of five poems: ‘War Dub Poem’ ; ‘Ministry of Fire’ ; ‘We Blare It Indestructible’ ; ‘Mum’s Love’ ; ‘Gratitude Poem (After Peter Gizzi)’]

Cover: Untitled, by Gyan Sharma. Acrylic and Marker Pen on Canvas (2017)

This is a birdshot sequence prefaced by one of Gyan Sharma’s untitled paintings from his on-going postman with a hat series. I wrote these poems for my beloved friends and family during my recent early sobriety.

held by the singular hope

for the future

you stare obliquely at me

with eyes like incantations

—A.A.S

Printed in Blue and Black riso inks, on FSC certified Munken Pure 170gsm acid free paper. 8pp. Edition of fifty-two numbered copies. Second printing.