Poetry / From fawn to shore
3 October 2026
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Poetry
Poetry / Waterhen
3 October 2026
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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
Kafka says
It’s been so long since we last spoke that I don’t think I can talk to you without confessing something.
There you were, standing before me
10 January 2025
The shabby turtle without a shore
Some label you a poet of love so true
27 December 2024
Of longings, of belongings
Women and the earth have to tolerate a lot.
–Kaajal (1965)
22 November 2024
Jogphal
Healthy water-bodies are sunk by envy-blind waste’s outburst
15 November 2024
Inventing love
When Anne Carson said–
All lovers believe they are inventing love,
she was perhaps right
8 November 2024
Grief exchange
I carry them openly in these calloused hands
and hold them out to you
could you tell me I'm worthy of love
8 November 2024
The ghost of Arun Das
Raise no alarm, if on a night dimly lit,
25 October 2024
Silence
A star fell on the ground in the windy night
18 October 2024
October: An unfinished poem
Glamorous lightweight raindrops
from the October sky keep
18 October 2024
Republic of the dead
As if playing a game of chess / Still the world waits for the next dawn
17 October 2024
Devi
The first pulse, in the midst of a whipping maelstrom,
11 October 2024
Sinking in ink
Don’t you see—
I can only write dark.
11 October 2024
A Desire or death eats away at my corpse. You are basking in the sun
Do you want my hands / Will they be enough to keep you warm
4 April 2024
Kissing strangers
Kissing strangers only feels good
29 March 2024
Possible answers to “Why did you block me?”
I needed to de-escalate.
29 March 2024
Half eaten mornings
It is impossible to distinguish when, but I think
My loss of faith coincided with your arrival
29 March 2024
L for less
"Love" did not have me at 'hello'
Nor does it cure the cries
29 March 2024
Shrines
Words have crashed onto your shores
29 March 2024
There’s no way you’ll outrun a bear
Smoother violence fills our hearts
like charming splinters.
The irony is I am the first of my women
15 March 2024
In another life, I’d still live as her
I've lived as her; / I've known my mother’s plight.
8 March 2024