Poems By Kerry Shawn Keys
Karma
Queerly odd, he was to some
and clearly odd to others,
and to the one he loved best
a contrary or a squirrel, no less.
To himself, he...
Poems by Devika Mathur
A Shadow
I am a woman of soft auburn dreams/ a soft noise that appears after a thunder/ you wish to dissolve my nectar into...
Two Poems by Kalyani Bindu
My Imagination of You
My imagination of You departs
like an impending recollection of a dream-
a narrative between shadows, colorless
with welcoming, stretchable dimensions,
lily shadows in...
Poems by Ammu Valikkat
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...
Poems by Akbar
Translated from the Malayalam by Ra Sh (Ravi Shanker)
When I love a woman
How do I love a woman?
Swaying her like the wind
on the sea...
Poems by Gavin Bourke
So I shot Myself in The Face
I went to the garden and it didn’t go so well,
So I shot Myself...
Malayalam Poetry : Bindu Krishnan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 12
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on...
Poems by Vidya Poovancheri
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...
Two Poems By Cameron Morse
Two Cashews
Impossible not to look
around and fall in love with,
this life extends daily
its bouquet of leafless branches.
On the last day in April,...
Poems by Alex LeGrys
Round Wire-Rimmed Spectacles
He drinks out of tin camping mugs,
speckled with white so even when
he’s inside he reaches for
something beyond the room--
still trudging through the...
