We drove 645 km, dealt with hours of traffic jams and walked 7 km in the dead of the night to reach Sangam. Enveloped in a cloud of mist with no beginning or end, the air was dense with chants, wails and cacophonic public announcements. We stood stupefied at how the darkest moonless sky had […]
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Author: Priya Ganapathy
Split Ends
For years, like a homing pigeon I’d return to a small salon In the backlanes of my home The door opened with tinkling bells Where beyond a pink curtain, red dragons flew across the wall I surrendered myself to the gaggle of girls With smiling eyes and poker-straight hair Who spoke a […]
Pink
Prettiness and peaches. Suffolk homes. Salmon returning to breed. Scallops and kabibe shells. Baby feet. Frosted lipstick. Rashes and raspberries. Onions and radishes, Cadillacs and corals Jordan’s sand art bottles and Bahamas’ beaches Sheer silk, satin pyjamas and flowerbeds of phlox Marshmallows and candy treats The rudeness of being jobless and beat Flamingos and Floyd […]
Gall
So what makes you better than me? Is it your colour, your height, your country, your job You think you are different from the mob? Is it your university, your college, your finishing school You really think you are a lesser fool? Is it your gender, your status, your law, your moral code You think […]
Everyday..
Everyday, I die a little – for I haven’t told you everything Everyday, I cry a little – for the beauty of you breaks me Everyday, I battle with demons that haunt my unsleeping spaces And pray to unseen gods who pull the strings that make us dance Or lose the chance to say or […]