Poetry 2017 Firstprize Shloka Shankar

to consider (v.)

Art is busied in considering.
No sooner done,                          
I wish I could—I wish I could—
(speak the rest).
A trap, beautiful.
But make amends;
far from being a diamond,
far from being an answer,
a refusal.
Source: An erasure culled out from Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper