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When I was younger, on some days, maa used to come home late. Baba always took the opportunity to dole out to me helpings of food I usually wouldn’t have if maa were home – like a certain pineapple jelly fingered out from a jar rarely opened, spread neatly on cream-cracker biscuits with sugar drizzledContinue reading “Ajwain”

History never found hunches attractive,But I do.They don’t know yet, Esmeralda can be pretty ugly too,Ugly Esmeralda and her Ugly Goat cried on the roads of Notre-Dame until we found him,A man with a blue hunch and a cheese heart and a rainy face.Not me, but some poets would call it love at first sight,SomeContinue reading “A brief description of my man”

I think we stare at each other, because we can’t fathom this :There’s a you, andThere’s an I,And you and I are together. We are two people who are together, andWe can bet our night’s sleep that that has never happened in the world before. I have infinite tenderness for all things blue,And you areContinue reading “Blue”

Meerab is a village in Yemen. They name girls after it. Why would you choose to fall in love with someone who writes poems about you?“We don’t choose who we fall for,”.I think you just want me to remember you after you’re gone. Mother’s Laughter is a Distant Memory, but so is Mine and IContinue reading “Love Letter”

Nothing makes you feel as much an imposter as a blank page. Nothing makes you move out of character like love. Nothing makes you cry harder than having to stand up to your father, you leave bulging forehead veins all over the pillowcase. Nothing makes you hungrier than walking home alone. Nothing makes you sleepContinue reading “Nothing”

Maybe taking up Sociology wasn’t the issue, maybe the issue was The first time I’d worn a sleeveless dress was secretly, at my best friend’s birthday party, hidden the pictures that were clicked, my heart thumping away like crazy at the thought of father would find out maybe the issue was button poetry made meContinue reading “Auspicious”