{"id":341067,"date":"2017-12-26T00:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chorus-dissident-voice\/"},"modified":"2017-12-26T00:30:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:30:47","slug":"chorus-dissident-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/chorus-dissident-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chorus | Dissident Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>When the last man on the shore sings, waves<br \/>return with a shoal of corpses. The rotting flesh<\/p>\n<p>piled on the dunes bares the skeleton, <em>\u00e0 la<\/em><br \/>the starving ribs of boats in Van Gogh\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. The fixed gaze of the<br \/>dead, parts the long hair of the night, flashes<\/p>\n<p>the searchlight, calls the floating corpses home.<br \/>The trail of their disfigured hands vanish along<\/p>\n<p>with the crabs. The hands that no more hold an<br \/>oar, swing a catch, or hug the sand. The night, a<\/p>\n<p>burrow to Alice\u2019s Wonderland. Our fantasies go<br \/>down that vesper to return an outcry. The blea-<\/p>\n<p>ched day, a secluded constable who stands guard<br \/>to our loss, holding a paraffin lamp. Clad in a<\/p>\n<p>thick blanket of the system, he goes about<br \/>his clerical tasks, counting death as if pockets in<\/p>\n<p>a cargo pant. When the dead men sing on the<br \/>waves, the wind hums along, the owl hoots<\/p>\n<p>desolation. The earth, a chorus of apology for<br \/>the Plexiglas towers of untouchable happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Aditya Shankar is an Indian English poet and translator. His poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in the Indian Literature, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Little Magazine, The After Happy Hour Review, Chandrabhaga, Muse &amp; Murmur, SAARC Anthology (Songs from the Sea Shore), and elsewhere. Books: After Seeing (2006), Party Poopers (2014), Tiny Judges Shall Arrive (Translation, Forthcoming). He lives in Bangalore, India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/author\/adityashankar\/\">Read other articles by Aditya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmeta\">This article was posted on Sunday, December 24th, 2017 at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2017\/12\/chorus\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the last man on the shore sings, wavesreturn with a shoal of corpses. The rotting flesh piled on the dunes bares the skeleton, \u00e0 lathe starving ribs of boats in Van Gogh\u2019s Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. The fixed gaze of thedead, parts the long hair of the night, flashes the searchlight, calls the floating corpses home.The trail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}