Monthly Archives: March 2010
Smirk
You must be laughing when you read this If at all you read this when it is finally a dismal winter in Kolkata If at all I collect my ruins to call you And ask you to visit me To … Continue reading
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Resurrection and Water Rises
Resurrection Wood, bone, steel, are easier to bend than the unseen. At least this is how she felt. No wall, no gate, no line marked clearly in dead, brown dirt. Yet the boundaries were claimed long ago, and the consequences, … Continue reading
Dead People’s Language
There is a language that dead people speak. It sounds like Portuguese, Swahili, Farsi, mixed sometimes with Hebrew, French and Czech. If I listen closely I can detect a bit of Spanish, blended in with Tagalog and Hopi. I can … Continue reading
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The War Of Northern Aggression
The War Of Northern Aggression she says with sweet sincerity showing off the shell of a once grand building for some yankee visitors trying to recreate for the yankee visitors the grandeur the beauty of what was lost before The … Continue reading
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