Poetry
Excuse me, your privilege is showing
You and I flush it down the toilet many times a dayBut it crawls out wrecking our just-mopped floors.Reeking. ‘Bloody hell!’, we shout in lingua..
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Poetry
A Yellow Iris
Van Gogh stops byIn my garden. Death feels chilly so he wants a morning back on Earth. I told him I admired his iris paintings. He thanked me, didn’t..
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Headless Martyrs
Headless martyrs are riding caribou intothe international forest again. Fairies sippingnectar from hyacinths chuckle at this scene. They remember why bushmen lick beehiveswith honey-coated tongues..
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Skin Under Water
draw a bath.with crayons?how does one color water? clear does not do justice,the glisten of droplets on skin.I’ll draw us a bath, you said, and I sawan..
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Silk Veil
The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
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Nothing Survives
Words leap over words Trounce each other Silence survives. Time runs over time Flatten each other Memory survives. Pages pile over pages Bury each other..
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Flowering
There is a sunflower erupting through the simian crease of my right palm. I shed layer after layer of salty skin till the petals glow..
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In the City of Panorama
Some trees are male, some female; Our house had four of them, And though I circled them every day as a kid— Looking for any..
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Two Scenes
1. A man reads the newspaper as if his son would turn up on page three. The chaiwallah makes a cutting, not because a half..
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Burnt Brown
As far as I can see, the trees brown beneath fall’s frost. Mother’s skin is marred by age spots as death’s knell calls frost. Forests..
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Classical Chinese Poems from Song Dynasty
In this section we present a series of Chinese Classical poetry translated by Gary Young.
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Kitchenette
The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
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Anthill at the mailbox post
There comes a point for us allwhen more peoplewe know have diedthan still live.You know that in a churchsomewhere a crowdplays Bingo while in anothera..
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Stilettos
You should never wear stilettos, they are evil, my mother used to say. Her other life advice included, Do not wax your arms, or shape..
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Unturned
The Sukshma Series is a first-hand account of an educated woman of post-colonial India reflecting on how the social and political set-up of the country defined the status of an Indian woman.
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Our English Cousin (2)
(Without covering the tedious detailsthat would have to happen beforesuch a provision would be realized),since in my will I made a bequest“to found at Washington,under..
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Summit
They put a robot car on Mars to take pictures of rocks.It takes quite a while for the data to come back. About my future,..
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Droog 76
Our last bottle finishedno said my Russian friendthere are always seven drops leftseemed empty to me he holds the bottle up and waitsexactly seven dropsthere..
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THE WINTER EVERY PEN STOPPED WRITING WHILE THERE WAS STILL PLENTY OF INK LEFT
was not a metaphor, and I like to thinkthe weed wasn’t either, the wayit took me three monthsto smoke half an ouncebecause I had one..
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MY FATHER’S FATHER HAD SYPHILIS
He was a peddler in a horse-drawn wagon that sank beneath a load of watermelons, canary-yellow corn, bushels of gladiolas and mountains of ruby-red grapes…
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The Pistol as Means of Communication
To not go home in January, I will burn my new calendars, as if they were bridges. An exercise just for show? What do you..
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Queen of the Cosmos
The pink dogwood buds pop on green branch.In St. Peters church: beneath the Lucite cross, from his snowy mountain, rajastic in white,Father Conri gives a..
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C’est Fini
The credits roll and the audience applauds on their feet.The sunset’s colors bid adieu before the night cloaks the earth.The last leaf of autumn floats..
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A Vigil on Tiger Hill
The dark climb before dawnto catch the first lightbefore it grows common.Windows rolled downto un-spelled anagramsall over night’s loose gown. Memory of an early downpourIn..