Poetry

  Open Fists Of the couple of languages That I have perfected – one is - “open fists.” I go around opening and clenching my fists - people seem grateful...

    BrokenIt feels like waking up next to a ghost and craving for life and getting lost, and I want to hold the girl that I used to be, tell...

    Tracking Down Clues Your poetry has me scratching my head and beyond. Everything’s so random. Like the words were spilled not written. You must imagine yourself a Jackson Pollock of...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh   You won’t know me Like you won’t know a kiss without even a single lip to receive it, like you have never seen...

  Translated by Petar Penda   Mirage If I ever see you again – let it be a precedent worthy of the main scene of a historic block-buster or a western set...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh   The vulnerable ones The badam fruits lay blushing red on the ground unsucked by the bats. The kid took a stone and tried to crush...

  Train Crossing Lit up across the Interstate, the video board message stated ‘Look, listen, and live. Watch out at railroad crossings.’ I thought it a strange bulletin, for in all...

    Earthquake What happened? There was a fault. What’s a fault? It’s when one piece of the earth juts above another. Why does that happen? Because the explosions down below go...

   3 Hours in the Pediatric Ward babies crying but not my baby, she’s okay each mother's eyes full of empty fear for their creatures but they're not my baby's...

  Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh   Something like a lightning My strong belief is that such a man did exist. Yes, there existed such a man. Or, how...