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Crossing the Threshold [for Gauri Lankesh]

Courageous Gauri ascends to cloud realms, leaving pale visages and desolate grief.

June 15, 2023

Gauri departs
To Himavan’s
Cloud realm

Father’s heir
In name & courage
Menai now bereft of both

Only the grief
Of this pale visage
Left to us

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Crossing the Threshold and 2 other poems

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Lina Krishnan

Lina Krishnan is an abstract artist and writer in India. Small Places, Open Spaces is her chapbook of nature verse. Her poems can also be seen in sixteen anthologies, among them the Black Bough Poetry Winter Anthology; and three editions of the Yearbook of Indian Poetry in English.

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