On my first day of boarding school I met a wolf Seven years old...

Woman,with her powerful weapon,voiceis a riverwithout shore...

Tanka shiuli flower trembles in the night breeze and perishes at dawn...

I had a black skin once, but I took myself to the edges...

I(i.b. Reena Saini Kallat’s Saline Notations) And she imagined herselfdrawing an alpana outside her homereleasing salt......

Flvctvat nec mergitvr I surrender my body to an ancient art, skilled hands marking...

Ajrakhpur (2001) Work on it today,sell it morrow.Add some more Madar seeds,make Gaalicho shine below indigo......

Ajrakhpur (2001) Work on it today, sell it morrow Add some more Madar seeds...

I surrender my body to an ancient art, skilled hands markingand wounding, needles entering layers of......

At thirty-two, I am beginning to learnthat my story is not my own,my body a birthing......