(for poet Arun Kamal) Longevity is a longing for an unknown biological future—at first glance, our......

‘Epithelial ovarian carcinoma,’ declared the oncologist Dr Holmes. ‘Fourth stage,’ he added after studying Kaberi’s X-ray,......

It is hard to climb a body without clawing the skin. I think that’s why monkeys......

Has it rained enough for all of her blood to be washed away?Have the clouds beaten......

At Usawa, we value every little thing we see and read in a poem. Sometimes we observe, with a child’s eye,...

This baby born today is not mine. Or is it?This maternity is only for banknotes,more of......

She offers to take my photograph. I say that would belovely but I don’t photograph well.......

I bleed into my paper while I bleed through my vagina. I bleed out my sorrows......

So, the nurse had been looking for a telltale sign of marriage, I realized. Upon finding......

Krr…crunch…chrrr…The sound of a door opening in dawn makes even my cold body shiver. It makes......