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UNTITLED POEM
sravani biswas
To my mother who never wrote The poems she always wanted to write I return, and forever pine to return For the hearth she houses in her heart.
Poetry
PHILOSOPHY WITH RAINA
kaiser haq
Months short of six Raina pauses halfway through a glass of milk:
Poetry
MIGRANT WORKER
manzu islam
On a plane at Doha airport I?m clueless, a tense voyager, fumbling the cold buckle next to a black hijab-clad, blue track-suited looking over her shoulders, for the pounce of a tiger the crawling stealth, the fatal leap Who is she?
Poetry
SENIOR CITIZEN
kaiser haq
I'm sixty. Facetious fools say that's nothing if one's young at heart, or, absurdly: Sixty's the new forty.
Poetry
M-I-D-D-L-E RIDDLE
shilpa kameswaran
I was the middle child in a middle-class family In a middle-income country Through the middle of modernism During the middle of a Marxist movement.
Poetry
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