Poetry

‘Arena Ukraine’

At every side, cannons. And the only escape... A small and muddy swath with lungs of afternoon and flowers of yesterday soaked in earth and red oil. Kettles in either hand each glowing as stars and...

“on either side of the river was the tree of life”

  my favorite historian says “Evangelicals want to keep Israel real for the rapture,” now their plans are falling into place: their bombs are falling into Gaza; their anti-Zionism = anti-Semitism equation is falling...

‘Leopard’ and more poems

LEOPARD Thus walks a beast in Eden, Oblivious of a long thinking tail, Thinking nothing of who wove the spots, Why velvet hands carry the most fatal claws, but during thirst,...

Three Sonnets

TONGUEA tongue was plantedin my mouth,then candida growling in the house,patted flattwo-handed rote,a love-bound pact,ring of throat ─that dog, long-dead,and dead-wrong,bowing its headlike a...

Nervosa

"A shattered glass carcass piled up on the asphalt"

The Normandy Stretch

Sit on the porch, Normandy moors Stretch, dream of dried flowers with no fragrance, did they ever bloom in silent fields and wooded shades. Plateau yield overgrown grass, Stand there;...

Dilli Meri Jaan

‘bhaiya, ek coke aur ek camel light’.

After Sex

"Love is the coaxing that knives us open"

By the Beach With My Grandmother

I hold her hand Her skin—wrinkled and loose and warm, green walls of veins I pinch it softly, and the fold stands, just for a moment, it stays like...

Anthro-apology

A poem by Navya