Poetry

notes on trains and planes

(1) our first phone was born with me,my mother always said;my first memory of distance…

Church of Our Lady of Good Health

I like country churchesWhile chicken play around in the porch,on the steps sit little girls,…

At the Cafés of Your Memory

Faiz, what befell the fellow travelers of late last night?Where did the morning breeze halt?Where…

//a mug hung around their necks like the curse of Ashwaththama//

An overturned anda-bhurji cart of a hawker during a riot.She who had borrowed money to…

On Language

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Call From Kyoto

When the phone doesn’t stop ringing,I excuse myself from the meeting room;watch the rain create…

Two Poems

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Two Poems

Diabetes at a Birthday PartyOn a channel, a day late in celebratingLata Mangeshkar’s birthday,plays a…

A Sense of Leaving

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How to Enter a Poem

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