Sticky post
leaking
Maybe we don’t really know enough. Maybe all the anger that oozes out of our corporeal canisters stems only from the pinhole-visions of wrongfulness that we … Continue reading leaking
Sticky post
punctures
I’ve begun to waste away Not in the maggot-caused atrophying of farm pigs Or the septic turning of salve-starved skin. … Continue reading punctures
Ignoring messiahs of morality
Dear Broken Rear View Mirror, Although physically I have no access to you, I would like to believe that I have “recovered” you from the burgeoning … Continue reading Ignoring messiahs of morality
For Writers
Writing Competition 2020
Abyss
Today was all wrong. The stench of mourning lingered, like unlaundered, unbleached sheets hung out to dry, for passers-by to get a whiff of … Continue reading Abyss
An estrangement
I find vestiges of poetry inside of me as I grapple to make a sword of a faltering pen, a nib that makes strange motifs on … Continue reading An estrangement
meaning
I tried so long To figure you out Forgetting in my fancies that Urdu poems are written backwards Continue reading meaning
saffron lies
I’ve grown up in a world obsessed with geometry: Lines growing, proliferating, marking us as Different from one another. The railroads on my palms … Continue reading saffron lies
a-trophy
What becomes of the things we cant keep safe Of the words we’re too scared to say Of the forgiveness we never know to ask for … Continue reading a-trophy
Japan’s Oleanders
But the thing about pretty flowers is that they can be toxic too Continue reading Japan’s Oleanders
