by Prerana Kumar | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
SEVERANCE After Aisha Khalid I hear it’s rather like a firewall that was Swedenborg & here is the womb where Mozart can’t...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
SELECT BODIES We didn’t say it coming. Preoccupied By interchangeable analogies (the jasmine Blossom burdening the Avenues, plus several other factors) We walked to the library, anxiously Equipped. The afternoon Swung on its tender,...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Time to Go 5.03AM: Our Health starts to go at late middle age. Doctors hazard a guess at what’s wrong in the grey haze under the skin, but at some point they stop bothering. Whatever is slowing us down is left alone; the broken cogs don’t need...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Daffodils Smarmy cunts. Hiding from me, in chattering spheres, year-round spectres of a season delayed. Budding in a darkness unknown – I will remember numbness. A yellow that melts, butter upon frost, their smooth openings jar in the...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Snowdrops I remember you from my crayon days. Clung about the tree like children to a maypole, you held green secrets close, the magic of the changing seasons folded in your petals. In the months before my mother died I anticipated you with...