swati.prometheus
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Old Dog, New Tricks

Old Dog, New Tricks
By Swati Ravi Nain

 
I remember Ammi at forty.
She seemed to me then,
as ancient and unshakeable as a tree.

 
Her forty was an infinity,
a life so vast
I could not grasp it.

 
My eleven-year-old imagination
...

– by Swati Ravi Nain

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The poem is vivid, building an image of a gladiator walking to his death. The metaphors are fresh and striking, the meter musical and through the gladiator, you feel for every human who has gone to their death with a strange dignity and through that act of pride created something even as they are annihilated. 

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