3 Poems – By Latha Ramakrishnan
O1.
Time on a Different Plane
Almost exactly at the moment when I thought
of the sentence
that poets have a different time-zone
my wrist-watch stopped showing the correct...
Poems by Arathy Asok
Dawn Thoughts
Why does it rain in the mornings?
The old woman with pushed out stomach comes in the dark dawn. She looks at the mango...
Four Poems By João Luís Barreto Guimarães
Translated from the Portuguese by Calvin Olsen
You never miss Siena
The
train materialized on binario 3
the moment the ragazza served a cappuccino
on that shabby counter in...
Four Poems by Duane Anderson
Let’s Bleed
He walked into the room
and said “Let’s bleed.”
It was his time,
the right building, the right room,
right day, right time.
I took his name and...
Poems by Aakriti Kuntal
Snapshot of an afternoon
From the blunt white eye
of mid-afternoon
protrudes an airiness
An invisible,
continuously morphing,
ductile sense of relief
Flowers perch above the breeze's invisible ear
Immersed in a...
Malayalam Poetry : V.T. Jayadevan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 23
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
Poems by Rajesh Nandiamkode
Translated from Malayalam by Ra Sh
Gummy soil
Always
always
it sticks to the spade.
Most of my time
is spent in scraping it off
with a stick.
Whenever
the landlord comes
he...
Malayalam Poetry : Nazimuddin’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 25
Translated by Aditya Shankar
More than any other genre in Malayalam literature, poetry has articulated the profound contradictions of...
Malayalam Poetry : Ashalatha’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 6
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Poems by Nolo Segundo
On Finding a Dead Deer in My Backyard
I saw them a few weeks ago. My wife called me, something urgent--
so I left the computer...