all night you abandon me slowly heat wave presentiment slowly
shiva will do his tandav worlds ashen won't
there's kali you're kali blackless kali
don't worry no one could outlive life so they cabal atman
in hindi i speak with formal you ancien régime
i speak not as everyone there seems rhythm in destruction not in death
people adopt gods not their caste scions
everyone's a saviour when they don't know what to say
save me from primordial silence paramatman
you still have a refulgent hatred for nootropic lie in cremation
you smother y = love when you find it never desire lie as cremation
shavite and mahasanghik polemic sort of love
we always call someone humbug don't we i couldn't
conservatives hollow out e-waste gunfire
if you love yourself too dearly your reflection will take it the wrong way
there's no formal you in your tongue painting
if the man keeps poison suspended in his throat for you
you can't degrade him me us you you could
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fell asleep your cigarette insomnia charred pillows stannic room flames
to rākshasas shiva granted then deprived
your psychedelic hatred for everything vivid woke up and met itself
an official visualizer song natraja dashboard
i realised i needed you more than hungry ghost realm
i needed you more than needs' need
the third eye was treacherously unappetizing don't stare at cement dust
they voyage on positive cruelty vibes
you said whatever was to come would now be i waited for you to lie still
so i could be intimately hallway alone
my head as antithesis of shiva's matted hair
my head without strength you assay
if you refuse to perish as a human become a rākshasa
there's a futility to life that only life assumes
like gulmohars spewing leaves icterine
or a kite carrying away furryball squirrel
after that silver fire your room spoke to you but you were half in wyoming
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assaulted student flats i can hear your conch shell ganges dream
i want your name to mean something
you're thrashing them for their fictions
your fictions rota proudly idolatrous
im creakingly cowardly for you all my chairs are tables black sparrows
you can't loathe what loathes itself
you die for meticulous death monsoon
no one's better than a gold bar not even your all exclusive vietnam vacation
not even macrobian man or aesthetics
culture wars spin out haemal haircut
approaching heat my sole perplexed friend a kitchen wasp
we spiel elle korean pop nuclear launch
cyberpunk filtered photo resembles the flashy filter same uniqueness
your mughal era land survey uniqueness
wait for their ozymandian prophecy
everyone believes in something bigger than vainglory themselves
so make me your little baby fish symptom
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you nod to everything of smooching nothing not even cosmic staircase
talkative outfit of blessed blooming day
st thomas hoists your brother from dead
that was then now cornfields are holy war blindfolds
take in that other force dilute yourself
resistance is only when you mountain
resistance is only flightless flight people meet at wagah border every year
naan with beef kebabs fancy some
most sacred passions lay university aflame
black snow and your hermetic lips
a christmas loneliness haunts dum conderet urbem after coal mines
all apostles live in that magenta tower
croon disused airport speeches et al
during riots thigh bruises of an ordinary kind claque foists authority
tell me there are utopias in expiry stars
auctioned to narcose highest bidders
paid in emotion bubbles that spurn to ever pop like moi
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a new spring flesh flat white morning voice dalliance to be deciphered
decided sunflower squirrel in love
with charitable bright blue latex glove used faith twice
use faith as social dementia
in the crowd where are we attrition
leave neptune if you leave singalongs your lorgnette
apoetic if i bring up a need
impersonal night touch me like your obscure page stroke
like your life smoke and mirror mildew
slow sun no one wants want night eyelashes you won't share
anything with my git sleep rouse
clock we gasp in too-muchness
truly who peeps at intestines of your clarinet apostate artform
daylight infernal saving i infer
or human heads pinned in tender sepia
ache to uncloak other navajo
moving divine dark around garden fantasies at misconstrued silence
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oh why disrobed truth people eke solemn lies as truth that's your only truth
sunshine is laughing in my balcony
you arm him about aqua sarcophagi
i accidentally let the refrigerator die
jews are arabs are jews slew gardyloo grimy fremen at their borders
your honeycomb heart logarithmic
picks a thousand in a room of thousand
not i or moi thousand one minus one
kill or be killed pressroom briefings chinese first-class red tie
you're beautiful no one interprets you
you're gorgeous and there goes holi
a handful of halogen love potions currency speculation tipsy
sea and spring and chrysanthemums
someone drowing herself with you as you
with your reflection your planetary influence your impaired glutes
tax avoidance for coke zero coitus
someone is walking like a bazaar with russia eyes with an individualistic salt
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an embrace is glaring at you dark purple tulip flying over fast glaciers and glades
a bollywood chocolate boy doraemon blue
onlyfans persona in skin lace
with peaked beauty only a mirage
musk lip fillers granite breast augmentation testosterone replacement therapy
happily happy typhoon air insecure
secure bodies fuse it's not that you find me revolting it's that i am
of few that are opaque ash today
in a hundred years a nothingness
a fascile nothingness beneath your nail
you understand me digest me when i refund your long umbrella
your sanguine lingerie youth
wasted on religious southern fascism
the tragic movie is good only in parts poets are treacherous unforgiving
unforgettably contradictorily free
it's almost sad that you're seeing me age
near lake ullswater we see me age
clasped in each other's arms i know you don't believe me a decayed poet
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winds hold dessicated
promises unkept at dusk
of your precipices
chandeliers fall asleep
stirred by dimness
caressing wire sculptures
coursing through veins
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poem no. 6—from unpublished rejected chapbook: forms—written during pandemic
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After I returned to my country after the war, I found I had to re-learn the language, because there were new words, or words took on new meaning, because of the war, and as I was in exile during the war, I hadn't learned them, or their new meaning.
- Quote approximated from Aleksandar Hemon
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[peripatetic in delhi — some –scapes]
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sangam palm boulevard
backwaters your narrow trail
dip fingernails
bindi and you say next year
knowledge of bodies through
window end on just
it sounds absurd but id like to
hold your mornings when you
cannot hold yourself
today your body is so delicate
it apalls me driving back
through rain
graspable in low-light mirror
appreciate error
the space between
separateness
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yes and that straggly word out into its dioptre alphabets
into a replica airplane upon jaggery frosted lips: leave before light finds you
in mistrusting darkness uneven in violence of time
i said something i had said before
that's all there is to life:
saying something you said before you said only this amaranth moment
animal in verbs
situational with evening beneath your sudden fingernails
what are orangutan friends doing with you swaddled in cashmere
in beholden blankets more smog
if you say nothing you say each particular past participle of nothing: we are
an imp instant
we are what we were before: someone's tragedy
in bulrushes in guileless pines
what of the world in waiting you ask maddened mind
im of incense smoke hair: the murmur of continents between us
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thump your sound shifts space
you're not there in waves
discussing
atmospheric perspective
averted gaze is naturalised
cover of daydream
deep eyes as alluring as distant
skies i forsake omniscience
the dangers of
expectation and habit
to ideas
to the process of creation
you have nothing to do with me
nape as apple tree
allow yourself no feeling
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[peripatetic in delhi — some –scapes]
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boston praying catholic jellyfish comeback.
you end on a question. no e-mails just
phosphorus giveaways. i read somewhere
something sometime some poems on
refrigerator doors, vaccum cleaning.
they stick "strawberry semen" inside my
neurons, axons, dendrites. my synaptic transmission is retarded. flickering flame
in your pining, cracking westerlies. i tell you
i can take you apart cell by lowly cell with
edges of my jaded canines. im doggish.
hound-like. a beast sniffing where i
shouldn't. lissome sighing dreams of dirt.
you're underwater wrapped in cathedral imagery and sins original. the "please" exhortation is murakami-ish. you say,
you're already scattered. i comply. do i?
it's also february regret, in swollen tongue pronunciation, yellow irises. you spit a
thread towards arthropoda arms. too
"jointy" for anything. too funerary. i speak
to this poet i.e. i memorize her dissertation
to steal her thoughts. she comes back
with a knife for me to stab her in the heart.
she says, do it in one go. i cut diagonal.
she hangs up her lips on breaking twigs.
i stitch mine. we leap into our rabbit hole galore. the jellyfish worships one god.
at a time. there are myriads then, just one
at a time. you genuflect. i am two am.
i am two fifteen am. i am three am when
machines are dismantled by your mirror
that reflects you as something gloriously
vain. the room shines like calvary. first cut
mandala denouement. sixth poem junkyard
but you desire iron. irony. you're on your
knees grimy to dictate how it's to be done. how it's to be burnt. slow pace backstroke
grace of peripatetic desert hermitage
neon curves. keep me warm in between
them. boston harbour obsession dazzles
your sunglass eyes parry ardour long call.
i buy sunflowers for myself. for me for you.
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