Anjana deshpande biography of albert

BIO

Anjana Deshpande is a psychotherapist and an occasional poet. In both roles she uses the power of writing for healing, recovery and growth. A trained poetry and journal therapist, she uses writing as a way to manage distress and empower clients to self soothe.

As a poet, she uses writing to connect to her roots, and to remember. Originally from India, she has been in the US for about 15 years.

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Remembering

My eye stilled over that shape:
a deviation
from the norm.
No
graceful handles, a squat neck,
a stub for an arm.
This one was all womb.
Plain earth wrapped around water.

How many trips had I taken with that?
Hanging just out of reach, gently
swaying with train-rhythm.

It had lost the battle to brash bottles
that turned water tepid in
the heat,
unlike the cool, fresh sweet water in the…

I stilled, trying to remember,
But the name dried on my lips.

Ashamed, my eyes turned to the label-

All it said was:
Earthen Pot, made in India