Four Poems By Kevin Casey
Chemistry
We mix, though a true solution eludes us:
at best we blend in suspension, debating
as to which is the solute, which the solvent,
until one...
Poems by Jishnu K.S.
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Menagerie
Township of a variety of prisons.
The distance between the iron bars
their length.
Through them we can...
The Song of the Melancholic – By Rimli Bhattacharya
The Song of the Melancholic
She sat,
She wrote,
The song of the melancholic.
She knew –
No one will read her,
The world is buoyant today.
But she –
She...
Poems by Zira Razi
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
Falaz
Falaz, honey,
how old are you?
Five.
What are the names of
your Abba and Ummi?
Shahid Rizwan, Shahid Jamiha.
Honey, do...
Panopticon – Poems by Ashalatha
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
A. In the time of Cholera
As God observed from the observation tower,
two kids, boy and girl, barely out of...
The Other Women – By Tali Cohen Shabtai
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...
Four Poems by Kalyani Bindu
Author's note: These poems revolve around a set of disconnected issues/mentalscapes - a feverish confrontation of nihilism (You Monozygote of a Purpose), attempts to...
Poems by J. D. Nelson
earth was insured
power pack was a beef rondo to scape a flex
the calm noun of the hot dog chain
a fifty of the lemon rescue
the...
3 Poems by Adithya Patil
Countable
How many sunsets have you let pass
without watching, by yourself, the sun sink?
How many rooms have you stood in,
hour after hour, facing different...
Poems by João Luís Barreto Guimarães
Translated from Portuguese by Calvin Olsen
Archaeology of a Gesture
The gesture lasted a split second (the
trace of a feeling) I venture out
to find it but...