Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Anannya Uberoi

  • ‘New Delhi, Beyond the AQI’, a poem by Anannya Uberoi

    ‘New Delhi, Beyond the AQI’, a poem by Anannya Uberoi

            New Delhi, Beyond the AQI   The king’s lane, papayawhip-paved. Smog on the lemonade children. By November, everything underwater. Crop-burn and tobacco clouds on evening sounds: fast-car honk, tin snips on sheets, railroad tracks. Old canard that the city drowns in its own black cloud. Not even the Ganges-sister, in her tar-pits…