The Year of Little Harvest
By Aman Alam
“He pressed his thumb into an apple / as if testing a bruise on the body of the world. / At dusk the fields turned the color of old bronze.”
Aman Alam
Aman Alam is a poet based in West Bengal, India. He studies English literature at Jadavpur University. His poems appear or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Mantis (Stanford University), Acumen Poetry, Sky Island Journal, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and the Lit Fox Poetry Series, among others. He occasionally paints abstract, imaginative figures. Reach him at theamanalam1@gmail.com