Swallow
All my mother’s warnings,forgotten. I bring in a fledgling swallow collapsed under the Sal tree. At once, I build it a home in an aged tukuri, lined w...
India's Very Own Version of Halloween and Día de Muertos Is Fading
As a Bengali who grew up in the early 2000s — perhaps the last pre-internet generation — I grew up with ghosts.And October meant huddling with my dadu...
Beach Finds
Slow across the empty shoreThere's more to be thankful forA bad poem’s thrown into the wavesA good one washes backA colleague tosses a rope across the...
The Last Call
Biking beside a cemeteryin October, I hear the corn stalks rustle in the breeze like a late autumn rain. The stifled sobs of farmers who buried wives ...
The Black Sari
Teen tal tempo tumbles with bolsrunning off the face of the tabla,Thunder claps curbed in each notethrob my boombox membrane.There is cause now for th...
Quiet Light
“Are you sad?” A peculiar question to slip out from the mouth of a child. The question comes like a steady habit, like a small pause in the middle of ...
The Diseased Tree
What grief does to a man, a termite does to a tree- Amjad Islam Amjadit was a green acacia in front of a windownow a powdered stump, a limbed Stonehen...
Teacup from the Year I Almost Died
I. She wakes before the light decides,Alarm splicing the last dreamwhere her mother’s garden still bloomsTrellis and rainwater,Soil pliant as childhoo...
Single Red Rose
In an alternate reality,I’m brushing my teeth inParis;my coffee black, cooling besidethe pain-au-chocolate freshfrom the boulangerie downstairsthat wa...
Swipe Left for AI-content
Art as we 'consume' it has become exactly that - something to consume, something to sample. We no longer devour it. We no longer savour it. We have to...
The body as a country without a parliament
Andrea Dworkin was a radical feminist and incendiary writer whose works — Woman Hating (1974), Pornography: Men Possessing Women (1981), Intercourse (...
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