Poetry

Three Poems

How does one speak of love amnesia is an attic full of salvation,a tainted spine…

The Sanskari Bahu

is first of all not a person with anyedges. She has a strong middle but…

Threading My Eyebrows in New Orleans

She plucked and weeded melike her private garden.Tending to melike a page from her Koran,or…

Three poems

The Pianist Pruning my words as tranquil targets,three girls aged ten trebled my responseto our…

Three poems

How to know that you’re new to New York The mailman is your friend now.…

Ravine Ghazal

Beauty in stillness, evinced by dead flowersin milkjugs. I found untold power hidden at the…

Death in February

Once upon a routine death,February snow wears a cold nightin its cataracted eyes, and sets…

This Poem is Deliberately Untitled

If my clothes get torn, I mend themIf soiled, I wash themIf I find no…

The Mud Fort of Khiva

Crenulated by ancient toil thiswall of sand stands againstthe sky and stretches. At night itturns…

Four poems

Sunday Sunlight and anxiolytic floradrink themselves silly;an eastern pinch of sky blurtslike it forgot to…