G. S. Sharat Chandra

G. S. Sharat Chandra is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. His newest books are Immigrants of Loss (Hippopotamus Press, England) and Family of Mirrors (BkMk Press, Missouri). Author of ten books, including translations from Sanskrit and English into the Indian language Kannada, a former Fulbright Fellow and recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing, Chandra has given readings at the Library of Congress, Oxford, and McDaid's Pub in Dublin.  See other work published in Weber Studies by G. S. Sharat Chandra: Poetry—Vol. 4.1,  Vol. 7.1,  Vol. 9.3,  Vol., 15.1 Fiction—Vol. 15.1.

After the Earthquake in India
         (30 September 1993)

                                    it's a habit by now
            head bent
at four a.m., the birds wake
            to complain

they do this cackling in
                          forgotten dialects of the poor

yesterday's count was thirty-one-thousand
            as if longing for more

    the morning news will bring
    more bodies to the surface

                                       counting is one way
of thinning the eye
                        to a diet of faith

someone says if there's divine justice
            it favors solid foundations

mud & rock slip through God's fingers

                         we can discuss this at length

            but if prayers are shouts
            pain is the lost argument

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