Ceilings

by Jayant Kashyap

after a set of photographs by Anshika Sarin

Your fascination with ceilings almost worries me—
the places we go to, you choose by looking
at their ceilings (like they have a language
of their own); at home, we lie down,
you keep looking up, ask how is it
that we love a person often
without boundaries? —
and that it still feels
right, feels
beautiful?

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Jayant Kashyap is an Indian poet. His third pamphlet, Notes on Burials, won the The Poetry Business New Poets Prize earlier this year, judged by Holly Hopkins. It will be published by smith|doorstop in 2025. He’s also the author of a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021).

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Anshika Sarin is a microbiologist and has recently graduated with a Master’s from Dr. Harisingh Gour University. Her photography has previously appeared in Flora Fiction.