Written piece
Ant-stitching through metaphors
Kakoli Ghosh
India
About this piece
threading the story of cuddling through a quilt, run-stitching the warmth of threadbare humanity with de-weaved yarns from tattered religions, as a line of ants eating their way through the wastes that seem tiny but discovers the hidden sweetness beneath the collapsing world.
out of scarcity perhaps, thread deweaved from tattered saris, hijabs and turbans bleeds into sweet yarns bitter as wine-d up time
yearns for Granny's Kantha-stitch quilt to cuddle the sleeping gods cold in rivalry, draping blistering winters, re-rooting, re-routing as an ant-line eating their way through wastes