Poetry

    Cloak of Solitude When her eyes are blank and cold When there are no ripples of warmth When they are like a frozen brook in a new...

    I cannot reach their output for now Every woman carries within her a month of the Hebrew letter Tet * in the counting of some 270...

   Fine crystal glazes on stark winter branches form, in quiet midnight  ⁕   Seek a higher path.  As the mighty trunks may fall, humble grass prevails ⁕   Rabbit drinks alone, from beneath cold winter...

    Dead Bird of ChinatownI remember the dead bird in the streets of Chinatown on College and Broadway many years ago. I wonder where his spirit sings today. Who took...

    The Cellar of Forgetfulness It seems I don’t have the cellar of forgetfulness… He who gauged it right for the sky, for the earth, and may be...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh   What remains I know you will come up the hill where days graze in summer. So, pushing aside all my busy schedules I...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh   Two breasts that came out of the woods Two breasts come out of the woods to enter your dream. You are...

    A Roofless HomeMelancholy is a pallid sparrow on an allamanda flower. The heaviness of its alight on a petal is unbearable. Madness is like baby gravels in a wild...

    Silence And I began to talk to flowers. What is better, silence or eloquence, I don’t know. You preferred silence, but I wanted to talk. The difference lingered and ultimately got...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh   As time passes, men do become tender When babies are fed they insist on grabbing the spoon used to feed water. When I used...