Tag: Jeet Thayil
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‘Effluence’ by Ruth Vanita
‘After the ups and downs of the day Manufactured alone in this small room, Aching in more than one way, I press Seven buttons, and am at last in heaven. Who is to be praised like Graham Bell For the greatest, kindest imagining, For knowing that no song can please so well, So heal ,…
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A Saturday Woman Poet , Prageeta Sharma.
On Rebellion, by Prageeta Sharma. (for Katy Lederer) “It was not a romantic sentiment , nor self-determined; rather , it was embarrassing. My love of spearheading, from introvert to extrovert, from cowardice to consequence, from the enjambment to the unspecified dunce. It was a sabotage, a reckless moment : a purulent, tawny decree. All temptation…
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“Purdah I” by Imtiaz Dharker.
Purdah I by Imtiaz Dharker. One day they said she was old enough to learn some shame. She found it came quite naturally. Purdah is a kind of safety. The body finds a place to hide. The cloth fans out against the skin much like the earth that falls on coffins after they put dead…
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“The Lace World” by Monica Ferrell
The Lace World. (after a piece of sixteenth-century Breton lace) How eerie it all is, as if linked by synapses; a face stutters out of the cloud of lace, a tiny decorative lion dances in a frieze, a woman, needy arms outstretched, holds on to thread bulwarks against some unseen flood while her body dissolves…
Chris Murray 