Tag: delhi

  • home

    home

    Tonight, home is secure between split ends. A light sleeper caught in a dense gaze. A cultivated beard and a wild lip. A marshmallow for cheek. A playground for the finger that knows its way around. Tonight, home is a chocolate back breathing in the shadow of a smoldering pencil and a still hand. A…

  • full moon, half berth, and quarter cat at least

    full moon, half berth, and quarter cat at least

    We begin moving. The sun is crisp like the round of my masala chai. A stranger town and the familiar pigeons. An electric landscape held in place by electricity lines. Paper in my left hand carrying the Indian Railways trademark while the paper in my right hand struggling to trade anything of mark in exchange…