Poetry / From fawn to shore
8 HOUR(s)
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Poetry
Poetry / Waterhen
8 HOUR(s)
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Poetry
Poetry / Four poems on healing
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Sacred sorrows
19 September 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / The finality of nostalgia
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Dinner time and death
29 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Coins in the wishing wells
15 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Reminiscence of life
15 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Ode to my girls
2 August 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / You ask me
25 July 2026
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Poetry
Even in hell, chanachur
And I realised: / even in the line to hell, / waiting for punishment, / we'd still reach for chanachur. / We'd still find comfort / in the crunch of survival
4 July 2025
Things I have had to forfeit and things I am unable to find
Patience, like moss, that grows on red soil. Conversations with friends, like inadequate breakfast.
4 July 2025
The poetry of rain
It would rain in the rains / And the rest of this poem would be written by someone else
27 June 2025
Writing a memoir
There’s a purgatorial break between these stretches
…flaxen against the lights
20 June 2025
The people within me
I am not a single name.
Not a single wound.
13 June 2025
Fragments
Grey chips of rough cement
Rust rubble all around,
13 June 2025
Mosaicked wounds
This was the way it ended: not with fire,
But carried quietly under sleep-beds,
13 June 2025
I loved you because I did
So go in peace, be free, be kind.
8 June 2025
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I cannot tell you that I want to be intoxicated, inebriated, and stashed away for the rest of eternity while holding your hand at the mediocre fair in the middle of the crowd of ill-mannered school-children who grew up too soon
30 May 2025
The companion
It said, 'You've brought a return ticket with you friend / Remember, people are not meant to be held onto.'
23 May 2025
Three Songs: Kazi Nazrul Islam
The mind craves to fly far away. / In the guise of a beggar, eyes wet with tears
23 May 2025
The moon is a cheeseball and we are effervescent
The moon is a cheeseball,
Cratered, yellow, and huge like your eyeballs
16 May 2025
déjà vu
Moving mindlessly and / Etching every alley along the way / With verses devoted to you
16 May 2025
Do you hear me, Ma?
For all that melts in this month of fallen petals rising, you’re a paperclip, hanging on the edge of my bookshelf, bent into a heart.
9 May 2025
Not yet worthy
31 years old moss-covered headstone
2 May 2025
Defeat
standing at the bus stop with my shoes full of water
25 April 2025
Mother, why is our sky so different?
Mother, why is our sky so different?
25 April 2025
Mould
A quiet, seniority in its touch, / A tenderness that feels like it's meant to last
18 April 2025
Escape
You thought you had escaped, didn't you? / Outran everything that weighed you down
18 April 2025
Delila’s quest (20 October 2014)
Li’l Del is walking all alone
Li’l Del wants to find her way home.
11 April 2025