Akanksha Raja is a writer whose poetry is shaped by meditative practices and the poetics of impermanence. She has been published in Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.

Akanksha Raja

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Life Drawing

Strange being both observed and unseen
falling asleep naked

under nameless eyes
and hands working me

into line, shade, shape
as an object

there is no purer way to be held
neither loved nor judged

no need to perform
silence weighted

only by the body
what a relief

my stillness
unquestioned