Poetry

Arachnid and Other Poems – Dee Allen

Arachnid She's not hard-wired for predation.Mating, then killing,j ust ain't her thing.Her instinct is more creative. Red and black, roaming spider,A black widow, mind you,crawls from one open mic to the next,endowed with gifts…...

Stories we Tell and Other Poems by Richard Luftig

Stories We Tell A bullshitter is not hostile to the truth but is merely indifferent to it-Harry Frankfurt. This is the God’s- honest truth,my father would saythen tell a story and us kidswould believe…...

Poems by Mohammad Rizwan Bhat

1 On the edge of a terrace,Stood a woman-Desolate, distressed and dismayed,Even these may fall shortTo sketch her state.And numerous violent stormsPerturbed her mind. With her heart poundingAs loud as thunder, sheGathering a mountain…...

House and other poems – Bharti Bansal

House Sometimes my aunts sit around the stoveAnd talk about their husbands in shy whispersWhile they talk about countries and their fall in another roomThis is how it has been ever since I was…...

Poems by Tanya Huntington

ψDid you know in wave mechanics, equations never end?Well, after reading that, I attempted to visualizemΔ«mΔ“sis as splitting odds and ends in half. Not KAPOW!like atoms, or Aristophanes' bi-gendered…...

A Letter from Fatima Gul – Udayan Thakker

Translated from the Gujarati by Mustansir Dalvi My dearest Manilal, do you remember?I was buying potatoes in Natalwhen all at onceyou barged into the shop?That was the first time we met. After that,you kept…...

Our Secret Society and Other Poems – Lorena Parker Matejowsky

Our Secret Society The language we spokewas carved by blue, redand black Bic pensinto college-lined notebooks.The most importantmessages were looped-long L’s and low P’s.Some filled the narrow rowswith fat letters and othershen pecked short,…...

News: Research shows human blood contains micro plastics in measurable quantities – Bharti Bansal

On some days you wake up and see the world around you surrenderingOther days, you are the one writing your last letterThere is so much hype around carrying earth within ourselvesSo much water inside…...

I hide consonants under broken finger nails – Debarati Sen

I hide consonants under broken finger nailsand deliver a bravura performance.No, you cannot decipher my fatigue.I dress up spectacularlybathed in turmeric yellowlike a wedding ritual.With my metaphoric verses I paint the sky's tripod extravagantly baroque!Neon coloured…...