Cover image: A painting by Sayed Haider Raza
Cherished
This tenderness for you
White kurta on a rainy day
Beautifully bad judgement
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Untitled
Gulf that exists
between
a touch and a thought
That on bad days
the bones pick up
Warmth of a held hand
lost
in the cold alleys of
self-doubt
***
Dinner
What is worse
than middling conversation?
Tepid tea
maybe
Like somebody forced
to cast out a net in the
lean season, catching
a flailing excuse of a
fish. You
trying
Feeble question dead
in the water
Limp
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Carol D'Souza is a research scholar and an avid reader.
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