Poems

Mother, I Will Keep the Feast

Here where the purple spears of asparagus are dipped in rain.
Here where wild strawberries run rampant down to the spring.
Here where you are dust
and where you once gathered baskets of flowers, […]


Black Jesus

After the man was lynched,
the hickory licked lightning
from a white sky.
The fiddler came that night and cut its trunk.
The devil burned his hand, […]


Dilruba, Sarang

We were meant to be bartering for a rug the colour of blood oranges.
But our conversation got derailed. She was from Kunduz.
We both were childless.
But Someone in her village had given her a girl. […]


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