Piquant: Haridh Kaur, Indian Woman Poet

Pantheon

By Harnidh kaur

"I want Eve to walk into a church

naked, Snapchatting her strut to

Kali, who responds with her own

tipsy stagger into a temple, clothes

from last night hanging off her in

crumpled ribbon-strings, tongue

stuck out with two fingers held

up under in the sign of peace (or is it

one of triumphant victory?), the antics

from the evening enshrined into

digital immortality on Amaterasu’s

Instagram page, hashtagged with

#FreeTheNipple, a cheeky homage,

echoed in Hera’s Facebook share of

yet another post from a feminist page,

liked by Isis, who engages the

absolute scum in pointless debate,

demanding positivity, she struggles to

claim, but still proclaims her body

as a shrine that she’s worshipped in,

and as the ridicule pours in, the

Goddesses stand tall, and unashamed

Laughing in the face of aghast disciples,

As they reclaim

reclaim

reclaim."

“Well, I’m an atheist who grew up in a Sikh household, for one, and I also studied history. So for me, religions, gods, goddesses, they’re all just stories that demand reinterpretation. In particular, i hope that the poem humanizes goddesses. They’re not infallible. It’s a commentary on the fact that women aren’t, either. The pedestals they’re held on are actually cages, and they need to be systematically broken down,” says Kaur.

I like the way Kaur uses women mythical figures in an everyday context, of them on social media.

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