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Poetry

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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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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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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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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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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Siesta Key

Air flavored like Fralinger’s             Saltwater Taffy my grandparents sent             from up north: vanilla,

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Electric Feel

Is our fear of emptiness a fear of being or non-being? We wake in a house of galaxies