Their mouths open, they wait for their mom My repulsion slides off my chest This birdsong in this village is the only comfort Listening to their incessant chirps I wrap
You were the incognito search browser that didn’t give any answers to my intense questions. Your words felt like someone who had swallowed a bitter gourd and didn’t know what
Metaphors to describe my heart (after Amy Kay) 1. An underrated song with no guarantee of repeated listens 2. A trinket shop that gives high discounts 3. A crossword puzzle
Fourteen short obituaries for the modern woman (after Auguste White) 1. Kayal died while doing the eleventh dish because her heart couldn’t take the fact that her maid just called
I want this escalator to lead me directly to an infinity pool and not to the same old landing that’d take me to my office. I want to stuff my
To have fallen this deep, I should have loved you right from Big Bang. I’d walk through a million wormholes to find the moment the universe conceived this mad love.
Lines for fortune cookies (after Frank O’Hara) 1. You will eventually find the love you have always wanted, but it will come to you at the wrong time. 2. Learn
Let the words slide from your tangled tongue for we choke on unprofessed love Sometimes, the sky opens up too to pour down its secrets Some truths do not wait
Kavya Janani. U (after Molly Brodak) I’m a soft toy stuffed with regrets. Sometimes, I’m a used sanitary napkin, wanting to decompose and recycle, but instead, I add to the
This is a poem with a hole in it. I fill it with a lot of things- like how the golden dusk melts between our entwined palms, like how summer