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This my India | Monika John

December 2, 2017

To maimed beggars with ingratiating smiles,
to women holding drugged babies
            plying their pitiful trade
under the sway of hungry demons
I say, “No, leave me alone. I am
          on my way to another place.”

To unending noise: trucks spewing … [Read the rest...] “This my India | Monika John”

Voices From The Quickening Quicksand | Ernest Williamson III

November 26, 2015

Voices From The Quickening Quicksand a poem by Ernest Williamson III on Indian Review. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Allen University and has published creative work in over 600 journals. [Read the rest...] “Voices From The Quickening Quicksand | Ernest Williamson III”

Spilled Mattering | Ernest Williamson III

November 26, 2015

Read the poem Spilled Mattering by Ernest Williamson III on Indian Review. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Allen University and has published creative work in over 600 journals. [Read the rest...] “Spilled Mattering | Ernest Williamson III”

The Beach | Thom Young

October 12, 2015

I found her
head on the beach
the eyes
black and dull
with
the days
we spent smoking
cigarettes and holding
hands
watching our youth
grow old
in the fading
sun
forever


If There Had Been Rain | Lana Bella

July 4, 2015

It was a windy day in the city with
little clouds and tossing leaves. If
there had been rain, it would have
snuck through the colorless sky,
spilled of droplets white and blended
in my hot cup of spearmint tea, … [Read the rest...] “If There Had Been Rain | Lana Bella”

A Knitted Day | Lana Bella

June 24, 2015

One morning
I woke with the sun
wearing my face and I knitted
until all the dropped stitches
and the joining ends were no
more than pale specks in the light.
Perhaps I should have spun
sideways and turned on … [Read the rest...] “A Knitted Day | Lana Bella”

Golconda Fort | Samina Hadi-Tabassum

June 22, 2015

Still sleepy and tired
We boarded the taxi to Golconda Fort
Lulled by last night’s Hyderabadi feast
An early morning break from consciousness

The steep winding gullies
Lead us into a Muslim enclave
With goats bleating along the rocky crags… [Read the rest...] “Golconda Fort | Samina Hadi-Tabassum”

Take It | Holly Day

June 19, 2015

folded wolf
soft flesh beside me, I
am so hot, unfurls into something I know

baby bird above me, wolf
clutched in its beak, I
touch the white skeleton man, push it up, I know

what you want, man-child, wolf… [Read the rest...] “Take It | Holly Day”

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Bribe | Subodh Sarkar

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Continuity | Irsa Ruçi

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Being and Nothingness | Rabeea Mahmood Rabeea

Being and Nothingness | Rabeea Mahmood Rabeea

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