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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”
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
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”
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”
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”
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”