Poetry / Durga
In the hush—footsteps fill the laden streets, .grasshoppers teeth to return home. Veiled divine mother, .she blooms in shards—from under the rain.from beyond the sallow moon.in her lion’s gait… tidal sorrow pushing through .your swallowing metropolitan heap. .
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
POETRY / Writing a memoir
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches
…flaxen against the lights
20 June 2025, 19:10 PM
POETRY / Titled 'Loss'
you don't recognise yourself, / everything is lost like a fish in Lethean space. / you have mistaken truth for love again
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
POETRY / Of longings, of belongings
Women and the earth have to tolerate a lot.
–Kaajal (1965)
22 November 2024, 18:00 PM
POETRY / Dawn of new(?) air
But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths
6 August 2024, 15:09 PM
POETRY / Raw Magnolias
This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant
7 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Durga
In the hush—footsteps fill the laden streets, .grasshoppers teeth to return home. Veiled divine mother, .she blooms in shards—from under the rain.from beyond the sallow moon.in her lion’s gait… tidal sorrow pushing through .your swallowing metropolitan heap. .
3 October 2025, 19:29 PM
Writing a memoir
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches
…flaxen against the lights
20 June 2025, 19:10 PM
Titled 'Loss'
you don't recognise yourself, / everything is lost like a fish in Lethean space. / you have mistaken truth for love again
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Of longings, of belongings
Women and the earth have to tolerate a lot.
–Kaajal (1965)
22 November 2024, 18:00 PM
Devi
The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom,
11 October 2024, 18:00 PM
Look out the windows
In the blanks of muddy moonlight
23 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Dawn of new(?) air
But talks of harmony flood your nose. / Harmony, harmony, harmony—you want it so bad, / and so you put words in our mouths
6 August 2024, 15:09 PM
Raw Magnolias
This is a garden, these are my petals; this is my armoring plant
7 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Sleepy ghost flight
You have made ice out of my heart;/ we were once nothing–you brutalise me
21 March 2024, 15:45 PM
palestine is my grieving mother
rise, rise—now evening dies: sun-born in valleys with burning olive trees—where women like me plod one day at a time,
9 February 2024, 18:00 PM
There is no water if i’m on water
I am put away impulsively
like the totems on a modern alter
29 December 2023, 18:00 PM
Small dreams
On the heart of a place where heather blossoms,
Dreams of scattered bodies and burnt heath
Against the walls where children live
10 November 2023, 18:00 PM
The Divine Feminine
I look in the mirror, and the tides start turning,
20 October 2023, 18:00 PM
The colour of revolution is red
And along with our bodies, the rage keeps on, / we chafe and bleed and clot and steer; / we go mad and nude
16 September 2023, 15:22 PM
Black swan
from my blood fangs, disarrayed cold / looting my sore body / that has done so much for me, while I ached
29 August 2023, 15:55 PM
Diphylleia grayi
The burst of fragrant marigolds
on the blanched porch of our old Calcutta home,
free like sand, unbridled like the wind
16 August 2023, 15:55 PM
Jauhar
We walk past the singing bells and our chambers,
Blind to the perils beyond our walls.
2 August 2023, 12:55 PM
Dark, blue night
Like wild leopard's skin, I spread out my hair
The dark night uncurls with his roaring fleet;
I pounce on his chest, bare foot, like Kali–
23 June 2023, 18:00 PM
The birth of Smriti
Inside her womb, my tunneling vision
28 April 2023, 18:00 PM
Chance encounter
Soundless on my flaking wall, you/ rest like a sniper in frigid fear,
3 March 2023, 18:00 PM