Thāi-mozhi/ തായ്മൊഴി
memory, language, place
words sprout along the inner walls of the womb. breathe. grow. move. words, like cells,
gather or separate into form or formless. womb, a claypot, grows within another pot within
yet another. time preserves nothing. time disappears in the vast distances. unearthing the
ancient burial yards, I find, shards. broken pieces of a terracotta pot. and they begin
whispering in my mother tongue.
material/ medium: twigs, white cotton cloth, Malayalam words scribbled in acrylic ink on terracotta shards of a broken pot.
size: variable
year: 2024-2025
M. P. Pratheesh
M.P. Pratheesh is a poet-artist based in Kerala, India. He was a collaborator in ‘let me come to your wounds; heal myself’, ‘Ottamuri veedu’ cross -disciplinary art events with farmers and indigenous communities curated by C F John(2020, 2022 and 2025). His poems and object/visual/ material poems have appeared at various places including Singing in the dark (Penguin, 2020), Greening the earth (Penguin, 2023), Modern Poetry in Translation, Almost island, Portside Review, RlC journal, Indianapolis Review, Indian Literature and elsewhere. His recent publications include The Burial, (Osmosis press, UK, 2023). He is the recipient of Kedarnath Singh Memorial poetry prize, 2023.
He can be reached at: treesnriver@gmail.com
OSMOSIS PRESS 