Orchards, I
by Sumita Chakraborty
a free rendition of Rilke’s Vergers, I
this evening my heart makes sing
angels who remember
a voice close to mine
by too much silence tempted
rises and decides
never again to return
tender and intrepid
with what will she join
About the Author:
Sumita Chakraborty is the assistant poetry editor of AGNI and a doctoral candidate in English at Emory. Her poems are forthcoming or have recently appeared in Boston Review, PANK, At Length, Gulf Coast, Witness, The Journal, Adroit, and other journals; her prose is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Rain Taxi Review of Books and The Los Angeles Review of Books.
