Mar 17, 2018
Nostalgic Rain An almost tropical rain arrivesI watch from the window.Quiet roads, quieter cars.The almost tropical rainadorns the hanging planters.Colourful flowers, petunias, azaleas, fuchsiasbut fragrance less,so the rain awakens nothing, hidden.There’s even a hint...
Apr 21, 2017
The Skin of Tradition 1 The foreigner watches a wedding in fascinationlarge bindi squatting on her foreheadred saree colouring white limbs.The elders enthuse at how shesits relaxed on the dusty groundreveres the sacredness of every chantembraces chaos in wondrous...
Mar 10, 2015
6 poems from the March 2015 issue of Episteme. CREATOR Your first bornwas grotesqueArms spanning the worldcrushing it with iron strength.Your second bornwas fierceexploding fire from his mouthburning souls in a day. The ones who came afterand afterraged for...
Jul 1, 2012
4 poems from the Jul-Aug 2012 issue of Muse India. HOTEL ROOM Yet another hotel roomImpersonal, indistinctThe same layoutI check the soaps and the lotionsAnd add them to my growing collectionI fluff out the beds to make it more slept inAnd try to make the night...
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