Poetry

Anti-Body Poem

Have you ever triedto slip out of your skin?Not in the waythat means sad girlsand…

Some (un)poetic Contiguities

The tea cup has brokenin the shape of your lip –the way people breakwhen nudged…

Learning Malayalam

Learning MalayalamManjadithara, Puthupally, 1982 അOn the layer of sandthat my forefinger parts, the curvaceous overturebegins…

Three Poems

The Drunkard of Pattinson Rd. On the radio, something from the 1950s.You know immediately when…

Five Poems

Thanks to Jonathan Edwards Black spiders in my woodpileasterisk a sharp distinctionbetween their brisk compactionand…

Library of Olan

Library of Olan The Library of Olanturned upside downwhen bombs of tear gaswere thrown into…

Two poems

The day of the fitting I enter the basement of the Spinal Injuries Hospital. It…

Three poems

Delicious Vowels This is how you sound.Like strips ofindecipherable syllablesfloating inside alullaby.This is how you…

Postmortem

Postmortem Listen: imagine yourbody next to mine.Think of the knifethat drew my thin spine open.…

Three poems

Writing on the Wall On the heels of the sirenA hissing undertow Back-bending sea-oatsPalm fronds…