and now spiders are crawling
and now i lock it away
forever and ever, it’s been a couple years
opening a treasure, filled with tears
[Read the rest...] “Queen on all the thrones | Bhavana Gundeti”
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Flies In My Bed | Ritika Gandhir
My body is like a treasure box
For the flies.
Some drink my nectar, some
Bite me too - turn my skin red.
[Read the rest...] “Flies In My Bed | Ritika Gandhir”
Cerebral-Cemeteries | Ritiksha Sharma
for when there’s a blank space writing itself,
names and people you used to call; have become like
pages torn from a book, words ripped away wordlessly,
chewed away letter by letter; scattered [Read the rest...] “Cerebral-Cemeteries | Ritiksha Sharma”
Of Loneliness & Fractured Homes | Siddhant Singh Chauhan
Across the paddy field
she lives in a house of her father’s bones
The local wind lulls overhead
Dusting the parapet of an old, old house
[Read the rest...] “Of Loneliness & Fractured Homes | Siddhant Singh Chauhan”
Lady Frog | Rachit Sharma
My father tells the most ridiculous lullabies
especially the one where a Lady frog is mocked for being the queen of a pond
a crow is her nephew and, an eagle, her sister-in-law
[Read the rest...] “Lady Frog | Rachit Sharma”
Dream, mother, dream | Ira Roy
Mother - oh mother - come, sit by the fire
Leave the meal in the oven - we have hands
Sit on a chair - warm you heart - come, sit
Take a sip from this wine - close your eyes
Dream a dream without us - dream for you
[Read the rest...] “Dream, mother, dream | Ira Roy”
Ghosts in Me | Ira Roy
A ghost in me - there resides a ghost in me
It comes out when I swim in lakes at evenfalls
So when a man sees my spine with evil eyes -
and bites his tongue with his cowardly teeth -
and lives in his head a dream of me in a bed -
[Read the rest...] “Ghosts in Me | Ira Roy”
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