Poems
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Platform Four, 5:40 a.m.
Secunderabad before sunrise: a chaiwala's rising note, a painted steel trunk, and everyone turning toward the horn.
PoemsIrani Chai at Six
An Old City café before the city begins: marble tables, a softening biscuit, and the small loss that counts as prayer.
PoemsSankranti Kites
Five haiku for a January terrace: north wind, glass-coated string, a muggu, and one torn kite that won't give up.
PoemsCharminar in the Rain
Bangle-sellers cover their glass, the stone turns from honey to tea, and the old monument lets the whole city through.
PoemsAmmamma's Hands
A sonnet for a grandmother's hands: rice tested between thumb and nail, braids, the evil eye sent back down the lane.
PoemsMonsoon over Hussain Sagar
A ghazal in English for the lake, the Buddha, the corn-seller's coals, and a father who said nothing for an hour.
PoemsNight Shift
3 a.m. on the eleventh floor in HITEC City, where my name is Kevin and it is late afternoon in Ohio.
PoemsMy Mother's Kitchen at Night
Steel tiffins stacked by size, tamarind soaking for tomorrow, and the one minute of dark she keeps for herself.
PoemsFor the Girl Who Reads Standing at the Bookstall
Sunday at the Abids book market: a book she cannot afford, page ninety-one, and a bookseller who looks away.
PoemsLetters My Grandfather Didn't Send
Eleven blue inland letters, stamped and never posted, found in the Godrej almirah under the land papers.
PoemsThe Auto Driver's Prayer
A prose poem to every god on the dashboard: for green lights, short CNG queues, and the wisdom to take the short way.
PoemsWhat the River Keeps
The Musi remembers a prince on a horse, a tamarind tree in the 1908 flood, and how to be clear again.
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