INTROSPECT

Even in storm, your eyes don’t lie— I still see the tranquility in your iris. Your glistening eyes hold the place where the answer lies....

Silent Reveries: her pov My love, how long have I been waiting for you?  I strangle myself in the whorl of my life. Echoes pierce through...

Wendy once flew. Her feet left the ground the night the stars opened their hands and gave her to a boy who smelled of wind and wildness,...

I didn’t realize how personal grief could get until it started borrowing my clothes. Not metaphorically. I mean… I’d wake up, get...

They came from silence, from days that forgot their names - hands trembling, hearts chipped, eyes full of thunder and rain. They were not...

In the time before time, before the gods built thrones from stars and the seas remembered their names, there was a land called Tharn. It...

On normal days Durga would be chastised and beaten, because the chappati was undercooked or  just because she didn’t satisfactorily scrub...

The shunned creature : a poem of two parts Medusa  When the god violated her  And stripped her of innocence  It was her beauty that was...

Morning dawns, I wake, and fold my bed alone. I take on my brother's chores, cook noodles with care. Mom's gentle voice whispers, "Make...

In the early 2000s, She was a homemaker, or rather a lazy housewife for her husband. He believed she had nothing to do, it was only he...

The visible pack of wolves  delve into a cave,  for new species to retract their pathways. Ancient trees bearing wisdoms  sway to and...

“Agni’s Ashes”:The beautifully sad. The sacred soft. The flawed immortal. The dying mortal. The god was dying.Not with a roar of flames...

Checked the edges of the curtain  For signs of an overnight miracle  But saw nothing out of place  Nor even an extra rib.  Tried not to...

Garage door opener on the floor  Of a Honda Odyssey Dropped between the drive-thru and the tire crew  At the Costco down the street. ...

A poem about grief and longing.

Words took shape then hid themselves, Afraid of misperception  And longing for a future  When they might become irrelevant.  It remains...

Trigger Warning:  Implied Suicide You didn’t think they’d kill him. The thought is naive and a bit stupid, two things you didn’t think...

Setting:  I was dozing off in the university library when a pile of books were propped open around me, and tabs were constantly...

"I guess it was either inflation in the prices or maybe a revolting woman. Because these are the only 2 things that can hurt my husband's ego. "

It was a typical Wednesday evening when I stumbled upon the mysterious book club. I had just finished a long day at work and was looking...