Poetry
Technicolor Sweet and Sour Grapes
You said yes because you believed it would flood you with shiver broken glass blizzard colored not ash showered Schindler but 2001 What Shall We..
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Terracotta Soldiers
Here is nothing that burns yellow giving the light that raised civilisations and enabled following civilisations to see it happening. Yellow, the colour of..
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what poetry should do
They were debating what poetry should do best. One says that it should break the shackles of papers strip the oppressive paperback clothing run through..
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Lighthouse
My son has ears filled with light It is filled so hard with light it Shuts out the noise. I pray he heals of blindness,..
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How do you remember your childhood?
As a pair of overworn ghungroos, their gentle patter across the linoleum floor. My master’s feet fluttering around the room in circles. The poetry of..
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Aunt Laura, Where’d You Go?
I sit at the edge of my driveway drinking an apple juicebox, staring at my purple toenails. I’m eighteen but parts of me have never..
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Family History
Born 1931 Here, by afternoon the sun slants down like candelabra; heart of mangoes shimmied fairy dust on her back. My grandmother picks the thumba..
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At the Bar
I sat at the bar between two men ones ear had recently been cut off he still wore the bandages and the other had one..
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Near Metro Station
A water tank for Allauddin Khilji now stinks of affluence- melts old in new. Memory snakes in through these yellow tunnels like a ghost in..
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The Rights of the Dying
I see that everything you’ve done is gentle. Let me die gently. Let me breathe a long cotton breath and be done with it. Don’t..
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The Night Lou Reed Died
Dreams to live to die by sometimes shuddering our way home whilst we tried to recall our listless motivations
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The Beresford Tomb
Thomas Beresford fought under Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt. He settled in Fenny Bentley in Derbyshire with his wife Agnes, an heiress with…
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Love Affair in Poppy
I read your message in a Garda cafe, miles away from your German stopover. You were en route to fight some war, that lasted longer…
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Autumn
The way she says “you naughty man” when he brushes past her derrière all adds up. So he puts on “Say Wonderful Things To Me”…
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A Trip through Indian Classical
Goirick Brahmachari’s poems on the theme Indian Classical
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1989 School Yard Shooting
The voices spoke when he was alone, instructing him to carve words with a pocketknife to the side of an assault rifle.
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Tripod
Windy shore, speckled seagulls, a black-haired girl with azure eyes, climbing on rocks, the gray-haired father’s pale hands wiping her mouth.
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Birbhum: Days and Nights
Afternoon The Bathroom In the bathroom, The plastic bucket stares red, The white walls walk bare, This naked bar of soap, Wants to forever live…
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Ode to the Tree of Life
After moringa, also known as drumstick tree or horseradish tree For my auntie, my father’s younger sister, with her liver disease “Let thy food by…
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Turkish Memoire
I Wind blew in the dry reeds beside Lake Van while granules of sand stung my face and hands, the hourglass of time fallen on…
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A Woman Arrested in Turkey
While a woman’s dragged flailing from the street tonight (a protester, I see her teeth and jeans), my mother takes the dog around the block…
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I suppose I am a Formalist
I suppose I am a Formalist With my adherence to scheme and rhyme
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Spatial
We confound Paralyzed visions Beyond the rain.
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The Concert
It’s a rainy night I’m going to a concert at the arena the roof is leaking but the music patches it up.