February 2018

Dirty Laundry In the tub another scent falls. I have to keep your coveralls Separate from my undies, To...

Incarnadine   Have you ever held up a flashlight Behind the webbing in your fingers Seen the light come...

Aphrodite 2017 The stylish haircut rests on a searching teen-aged face: freckled nose, pale grey eyes, cropped hair colored...

Crank shrapnels   I found this song in the middle of dark places and piercing catchwords, formaldehyde air and...

love the skin you’re in i used to hate my body because it was not like those of models...

Woman beneath the Sheets It rained the night before and it rained on a woman beneath the sheets. I...

The Curse of the Red River “My body is aching and my soul is seeking. I am not myself...

Justice for the Body   I heard somebody was criticizing my body..

Celebrated Scottish poet Tessa Ransford emailed me about Japanese poet Bun Hasijume – ‘Poet Bun Hasijume had a narrow...

I came to know about ‘comfort women’ after going through an article that was published in Ananda Bazaar Patrika...