# The Patchwork Quilt

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2024/11/21/the-patchwork-quilt/
- Published: 2024-11-21T18:09:10+00:00
- Author: us\_basu

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**Author: **Sunaina Jain[⌊A sample cover of the book: jade-green handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Patchwork-Quilt.jpeg)
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Pages:** 104 **Year of Publication:** 2024 **Price: **₹400 **ISBN: **978-81-979136-
2-4 (9788197913624)

_**About the Author**_

An Assistant Professor of English at Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College, Chandigarh,
Sunaina Jain holds a doctorate in English from Panjab University, Chandigarh. Besides
conducting various workshops on creative writing, and language and communication
skills, she has published many research papers in national and international journals.
Her poems have featured in a number of literary journals like _Muse India_, _South
Asian Ensemble_, _Nuances_ and _Dialog_, and international anthologies including
_Shout It Out_ (Lost Tower Publications, London, 2016), _Tranquil Muse_ (Authorspress,
New Delhi, 2018) and _Aquillrelle’s Anthologies: Selecting the Best_ (USA, 2018).
Her translated stories feature in the collection _Vignettes_ (Sahitya Akademi, 2018).
She has contributed chapters to _The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature_(
2022), _Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature_ (2022) and _The Routledge
Handbook of Trans Literature_ (2024). Some biographical entries written by her have
featured in _The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English_ (2023). She
co-edited _Happiness: An Eternal Quest of Being_ (Authorspress, 2018). She has reviewed
books of various genres for _Muse India_, and guest-edited the special May-June 
2022 issue of _Muse India_ on “Ethics and Politics of Cultural Memory”. She has 
a penchant for pursuing diverse creative arts including singing, painting and cooking.

_**Teaser**_

**Some portion of the sky**

I have lived

under some portion of the sky I could claim mine.

 

I have experienced

love and hate – their unending puzzles, paroxysms,

caprices, enigmas and bizarre forms.

The walls closing in at times;

the barriers of choking norms.

 

I have listened

to the faint whispers of the wind,

the screams of the incisions made

sometimes in the flesh,

sometimes on the soul,

the warm sighs of passion,

the gale and its unruly fashion,

the eerie echoes and the muffled sounds,

the twitter of birds and the grunting hounds.

 

I have witnessed

the ripe fruits dropping from the branches,

the young ones waiting to be plucked from the ranches,

the tom-tomming of morality law,

the belly cries under the piercing claw.

Despite the fair share of highs and lows,

bouquets, brickbats and blows,

above and beyond all this,

I still want to live a little more

and surrender myself to the one

whose name and contours

keep coming alive day after day,

night after night,

as if she has always been a tiny

but intrinsic part of me,

yet to be conjoined

to my being forever.

_**Contents**_

55 poems across 3 sections

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