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Black
Black; The colour of my hair that you ran your fingers through And clutched and pulled back and Gasp; As our legs twirled under sheets..
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Guide to the Political Pirouette
Practice pirouettes in a safe place Clear of any sharp tweets or leaked emails Know your retracted position before you start Keep your shoulders and..
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Overview
“every ecology depends on death” cotyledons green to their task of rising into trees, unruffled by captions in a town in India a driver races..
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Though Time
Though your bones will turn to dust There is still time to love and lust Though your muscles soon will rot And memory will slip..
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Diminishment
“ there are two ways of getting home and one of them is to stay there” – G.K Chesterton no more does..
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Who wants to play with my rainy day – a found poem
my otherness sticks with me no matter where I go : never loan out your rainy day : how many bodies are we :..
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Making Art
The studio was lit by December smog, you’d make tea make lunch make breathless moans, then you burned plastic paint to make statements about the..
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Walk, After Lunch
A deer park, a duck lake, a fort— “It’s colder here, isn’t it?”— “Yes; we’ll walk fast, ok?” Distress clouds your eyes: “You should’ve got..
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Braille
lately my mind is a dreamy soup Yours, polished rosin. I stand grey as a doorway To embody sleep my chance to mishear when you..
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Exiled at Home
I find it amusing, yes when people refer to their nation as the Mother Land. My mother’s land is not mine. I have no claim..
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His Death: Part I
took my arm and said something about MRSA climbed into a sitting position took on his own half-assed-half-lotus “I had an axe and a wife…
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Am I Now I?
Change the way you think you’re escaping toward the blue and fuzzy, bleeding into a wash. [Ask me not to say it.] Awake from the..
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Nothing is Ever Destroyed
I wanted to stay in that little town with you The one with all the chickens And the movie house on fire Late at night..
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The AC/DC Dark -for “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
In my fully charged battery life youth, my bedroom blazes nightlight electric, my nursery rhyme records spin twilight warped, the gorilla’s cymbals clash a flat..
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For a Poem
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. I go near a tree and utter: Oh kind tree, can you provide me a poem? The tree..
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Notes from a Himalayan Village
A constant hammer on wood and a distant conversation. Two voices, two villages, Separated by a river that scorns The silence and floats into my..
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Cartography of a Broken Town
i. a city of stuttering street lamps, sinking paper boats & swirling streets, you were born into/ shadows possessed you till you laughed at your..
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Oh Freedom
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. Freedom, you’re The classic verses of Tagore, timeless lyrics. Freedom, you’re Kazi Nazrul a great man with thick..
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Inadequacies and Reassurances
I will sleep tonight, I tell myself Despite the insomnia that developed After you left, like the filth that washed up— Mainly broken bottles of..
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Shit poetry
Shit poetry went for poetry festivals sponsored by corporates drunk champaign wrote about rain flowers, cherry tree, birds, butterflies, clods, love and sex in the..
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Mother Tongue
“If you write in English, you cannot know your own emotions.” ~ a poet I once met Mother’s tongue. Say it slow to staunch the..
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Riches
Translated from Bangla by Md. Ziaul Haque. When I stand the wall reflects the shadow, My very own shadow. Two eyes are there Behind the..
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The Moon Machine Begins
They’re selling the projected lightshow pyramid scheme selling the world one way tickets to all tomorrow’s parties they come wrapped in self-reflexive electrical tape hand..
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Grandmother Boogie
My grandmother sang the song from Jaws Show Me The Way to Go Home fire danced a double Dutch Yiddish hopscotch pinkie ball capoeira smoked..