Evening by Kuhu Joshi
“On the bridge, people are carried / in the body of a train, nodding like peonies.” — Kuhu Joshi
Still Life by A. K. Ramanujan
“I saw the half-eaten / sandwich, / bread, / lettuce and salami, / all carrying the shape / of her bite.” — A. K. Ramanujam
Dear Dangerous How Do You Explain It by Kazim Ali
“Dear unsettled evening, all the cold shadows, // how lucky we were to have lived / in the world—” — Kazim Ali
An Indian Girl’s Guide To Driving by Urvashi Bahuguna
“Nothing makes me forgive people / like learning I have something to teach them.”
Beyond the Ash Rains by Agha Shahid Ali
"When you lit the fire / and poured the wine, "I am going," I murmured, / repeatedly, "going where no one has been / and no one will be
Even the Rain by Agha Shahid Ali
"After we died---That was it!---God left us in the dark. / And as we forgot the dark, we forgot even the rain." – Agha Shahid Ali