Living With Earthquakes
“…the devourer of form,/ once a genteel termite,/ now at your jugular, foaming…” By Arundhathi Subramaniam.
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Meaning
“It is by this/ Practise in sounds / Alien that we come/ By degrees round to/ The quick of meaning…” By Tabish Khair.
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Lesson 7: How to Dream a Beautiful Death
“…this is how he wants to go—/ like an ochre flower in a field,/ hungry and alive, the wind rushing in,/ scattering him everywhere.” By Tishani Doshi.
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Geography of Tongues
“I am the map/ I am the cartographer// no sextant/ no compass/ only eyes/ ears and tongue.” By Shikha Malaviya.
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Hell Hath No Puri
“…the Puris, those witches, wanted man-/ bhaji. I bedded one—which I don’t know—/ so all three saw me as common property.” By Jeet Thayil.
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Elegy for the Gold Aunt
“Take my relation with her tongue restless as fire./ Take my relation with her legacy of shame.” By Minal Hajratwala.
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Two Wolves, Come Separately To A Wood
“I got hungrier and hungrier./ I chewed the trees like bones, I ate their meat.” By Aditi Machado.
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primetime news
“Close up, her face/ dissolves into blank squares./ She does not know anymore/ who she is.” Poem of the Week (September 24), by Athena Kashyap.
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Muse
“Silence/ approaches/ from the/ left side of the/ d o o r…” Weekend poem, by Ronojoy Sircar
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summons
“tadpoles appeared—/ small, slippery as sperm,/ sliding through fingers.”
Weekend poem, by Athena Kashyap.