Arabic/Arabic
“We run our hands on the carved door of Arabic;/ We bless the embroidered walls of Arabic;/ We hold the gates of Arabic…” Poem of the Week (20 October), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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Working Hands / Zawal-e-Istihal
“…They have served well. / Even though knuckles are pummeled, nails ridged/ like limpet shells. These hands have never/ been used to beg…” Poem of the Week (October 6), by Kishwar Naheed, in an English version by Vicki Husband.
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Blue Shirt
“you do not question the disappearance of your hands. / your hands are murals. silver buttons. leaven…” Poem of the Week (September 29), by Triin Paja.
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Borders: a suite
“…a beach boat’s carcass/ rests among the reeds/ holding a few breaths…” Poem of the Week (22 September), by Daniel Voskoboynik.
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Interstice
“We did not know/ That power does not grow/ From the barrel of a clenched fist…” Poem of the Week (September 15), by George Goddard.
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Eucalyptus in Rain
“…your hands on my freshly painted door/ They smell of this poem, which they call beautiful…” Poem of the Week (September 8), by Arup K. Chatterjee.
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Lahore
“So hurry, dye those duppatas, dot those elegant paisleys,/ So place those fraying jasmine wreathes/ round delicate wrists…” Poem of the Week (September 2), by Rakhshan Rizwan.
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Morning and Afternoon,
“night pushes at// the stars, at what/ we hope survives…” Poem of the Week (August 26), by Tom Montag.
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Bengali Chain
“I see us as we were, a couple, standing in a wound…/Thin strips of heat peel off the gutted pavement…” Poem of the Week (August 21), by Thomas C. Dunn.
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Feynman’s Vaudevillian Dream of the Hardy-Ramanujan Number
“The starfish. I saw it on an English beach one frigid morning. Its five arms splitting me like five infinities…” Poem of the Week (August 11), by Arjun Rajendran.
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