Poetry
Smudge of Fingerprints
Our story is a window. Stroke by stroke my body remembers that life & cries for the missing parts of itself
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Poetry
Your Letter Arrives
I am not sad I can’t see the blue of your iris, that a shadow obscures
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The Nightling Apples
and only I know how their hair curls almost scentless around their ears, what kind of silence pleases them.
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Spring Pastoral
I may be soggy with sleep and the wispy, leftover fragrance of night jasmine, but let me be luminous. Strut with the fawns.
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For A Contented Violet
Sometimes it takes just the right window. With enough sunshine, and not too much water.
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Window with a Train Attached
C. P. Surendran gives us three poems from his new book, Window With a Train Attached from Speaking Tiger.
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What Happened of Maruti Kamble?
The Poetry Cast showcases the reading of a poem. In this issue, Dr. Abhijit Khandkar reads the poem What Happened of Maruti Kamble
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Three Poems by A. E. Copenhaver
But I don’t have to say a word to the trees. They already know everything.
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Two Poems by Kunjana Parashar
TBR brings you two poems from Kunjana Parashar’s debut poetry book They Gather Around Me, the Animals.
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An explanation for the clause bequeathing everything to the secret Parisian society, les UX
Finally, we compromised and replaced your biography with this poem.
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Two Poems by Ashwani Kumar
Chewing Bengali paan, mixed with spices and lime, runway girls follow him to the town hall, for a symphony of molten desires.
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Meditation in Appalachia
Lesson learned; I will stop counting, but you’ve taken my booze, taken my music; I’m only a man after all.
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You
Your signature phrase so Britishly conditional, the words cross-grained with hope and irony,
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Only Here for My Niece’s Christening
He smells like Irish Spring and lots of it. I offer him an agnostic smile.
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The Melon
when suddenly our dog swoops in like a hungry kestrel burrowing deep sniffing your sweat
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Sinduraruna
Sinduraruna is a translation of the Dhyana Sloka of the Sri Lalita Sahasranama.
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Restrained Approval of Decorative Porcelain Tiles
Elevated into the high rafters of heat,
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TBR pays homage to the last of the Beats-poet Gary Snyder, who turns 95!
TBR pays homage to the last of the Beats-poet Gary Snyder, who turns 95!
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Watercolor: A Quiet Moment in the Garden City—Bangalore, India
After dinner I hear the music of the ceremony across the street.
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Leaving the City
You board another train, but it’s another season, maybe even another year. You travel quietly. Pairs of eyes sit across in varying degrees of kindness.
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Aloe
Plant mother to plant mother, I get it The sun shines on, dutiful and tired And I am tempted to break
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On Hamlet’s Flute
On Hamlet’s flute old bones of Elsinore shook and shuckered up the graves they died and dyed the earth in.
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House of the Dead
The dead mattered more than the living. One night, the fire alarm didn’t go off.
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rain is rare and it is welcome but it doesn’t solve anything and actually that’s okay
And the rain swept in a little fast for her liking but there was no helping it was there And nobody picked up the phone when she called