Preserve / The Brink
M P Pratheesh
Preserve
An object poem.
Materials used: cotton cloth, printed pieces of paper/found words, canvas board.
Wounds are our last door to return to the earth. The door dripping with blood that opens to all the lands and the visible and invisible becomings of the body, language and life.
(Translated by CS Venkiteswaran)
"മുറിവുകൾ, നമുക്ക് ഭൂമിയിലേക്ക് തിരികെ വരാനുള്ള അവസാനത്തെ കവാടമാണ്. ശരീരത്തിന്റെയും ഭാഷയുടേയും പ്രാണന്റെയും ദൃശ്യവും അദൃശ്യവുമായ മുഴുവൻ
ഉരുവങ്ങളിലേക്കും, കരകളിലേയ്ക്കും മടങ്ങാനുള്ള, ചോരയിറ്റുന്ന വാതിൽ."
The Brink
An object poem.
Materials used: clay, cloth, fallen leaves, shells.
M P Pratheesh is a poet and artist who lives and works in Kerala, India. He has published 10 collections of poetry in Malayalam. His poems and object/visual poems have appeared in various places including Singing in the Dark (Penguin), Greening the Earth (forthcoming from Penguin, 2023), RlC Journal, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Indianapolis Review, Kavya Bharati, NationalPoetryMonth.ca (AngelHousePress), The Bombay Review, Keralakavitha, Guftugu, Acropolis, Osmosis, True Copy, Indian Literature and elsewhere. His recent books of object poems include Transfiguring Places (Paper View, Portugal) and Charam-Acharam (Notion Press, India).