You Tonight, the sky sags, heavy with stars, and the wind has a cough, but I need a breeze, though the winter frost has sandpapered my knuckles. Cracked, they look tough and dry as elephant hide and...

The Veterans are so busy loading and unloading cargoes of invisible presences from the flag fluttering ships anchored in their hallways, that it can take a lot of  time to open the doors behind...

  Touch I  Whispered. Even the stones or the ants Wouldn't hear. And i listened to the god sobbing From the room Next to the earth.         Pratheesh Ramachandran was born...

      The Observer of Silly flash shower , quick-dried and dressed snow again? while I scramble for my keys a tree perched  squirrel smiles as I enter my car      ...

Hot Coffee For Hot Days - For the Café Mediterraneum, Berkeley, CA My readied latte lazes on a sun-soaked, sugarcoated counter whose marble mimes of Kennecott malachite, one among a straightened row...

        Fire Once upon a time, there was a girl who wanted to learn to sing like fire.  She sat in front of the fire continually, mesmerised by its rhythm, its high notes and its...

    * New potatoes Buried in darkness, but umbilically linked to a mother husk, seven pearly potatoes must surrender to the spade. * Found objects Watch how willow twigs, translucent...

    In the sauna We are no longer surprised pleased aroused by our bodies. In the dark heat steam is a salving poultice drawing pain. I see disappointments trickle down your back on the...