Selma Carvalho

July 29, 2020

poetry

Eight poems: Sighs and Wings

Selma Carvalho

July 29, 2020

poetry

By Abin Chakraborty

Issue no 17

In the stillness of dawn, to sighs I've asked
Their lineage and destiny untold.
Flitting among shelves full of papers and books
They've whispered me tales full of petals now torn
Amid debris of silence that piles along walls

Selma Carvalho

January 31, 2020

poetry

Three poems: Me, My wife, and the Other

Selma Carvalho

January 31, 2020

poetry

By Ra Sh

Issue no 15

Wife cooks, feeds, cooks, feeds
Makes my bed, serves me meals in bed
I crave the other.

Wife bathes me, cleans my bum
Washes my clothes, dries and folds them
I crave the other.

Selma Carvalho

July 18, 2019

poetry

Three Poems: Daybreak

Selma Carvalho

July 18, 2019

poetry

By John Lawrence Nazareth

Issue no. 13

The daybreak creeps in with the morn.
Under the sun’s first kiss,
The swooning night has slipped away,
And with it flee the dreams of creatures

Selma Carvalho

July 4, 2019

poetry

Love and Longing in the Anthropocene

Selma Carvalho

July 4, 2019

poetry

By Salil Chaturvedi

Issue no. 13

in the scheme of things it is not as momentous as the huge chunk of
Greenland’s Peterman Glacier
breaking off and drifting out to the open sea,
and there exists
no NASA satellite image of my heart

Selma Carvalho

July 3, 2019

poetry

Search

Selma Carvalho

July 3, 2019

poetry

By Santosh Alex

Issue no. 13

I searched for you
on the dining table
You were distributing bread
to the multitudes.

Selma Carvalho

July 2, 2019

poetry

Three poems: An Evening in Agartala

Selma Carvalho

July 2, 2019

poetry

By Madhu Raghavendra

Issue no. 13

There is no society
But four corners of our bed
Under a white lighting sky
Black clouds grind our bodies
The secret stays— what's yours, what's mine?

Selma Carvalho

July 1, 2019

poetry

Haughty NRI

Selma Carvalho

July 1, 2019

poetry

By Michelle D’Costa

Issue no. 13

Mom said, English will take you abroad.
Gulf will kick you out when it has sucked
the life out of you. You must go abroad. At home,

Selma Carvalho

May 8, 2019

poetry

Three Poems by Michelle Cahill: Deva Loka

Selma Carvalho

May 8, 2019

poetry

By Michelle Cahill

Issue no. 12

The road leads us away from the temple of Pārvatī,
from the iris of the spotted hawk, red and gold satin,
the smoke of burning dhoop and coconut offerings.
Away from bells touched by the fingers of pilgrims.

Selma Carvalho

April 24, 2019

poetry

Brackish waters

Selma Carvalho

April 24, 2019

poetry

By Roseangelina Baptista

Issue no. 12

I myself, an Amazon child,
Became an outcast soul,
Just to know the spells of
Mandovi in June.

Selma Carvalho

April 14, 2019

poetry

Four Poems by Rochelle Potkar: ATS

Selma Carvalho

April 14, 2019

poetry

By Rochelle Potkar

Issue no. 12

They never disagreed - Ruby, Tessa, Helium;
he didn’t need coping mechanisms.
He sowed his oats into soft burgundy strands
or in the blonde, or the one with rolling blue eyes.

Selma Carvalho

February 4, 2019

poetry

Two poems: The Oral Lyric of Life

Selma Carvalho

February 4, 2019

poetry

By Chandramohan S

Issue no. 11

Every river in my land
Is a pulsating relic of an
Epic outliving its origin.

Selma Carvalho

February 3, 2019

poetry

Three Poems: The Lost Mango Tree

Selma Carvalho

February 3, 2019

poetry

By Sonnet Mondal

Issue no. 11

The mango tree which I reared
is lost today somewhere
in the jungle of my wishes.

Selma Carvalho

January 29, 2019

poetry

Three Poems: Father Vaskode's Lesson

Selma Carvalho

January 29, 2019

poetry

By Pitambar Naik

Issue no. 11

Water has no colour, sky is not a trousseau
it’s the likeliness of MF Hussain’s paintings

Selma Carvalho

January 23, 2019

poetry

Me and Meena at the Marsh

Selma Carvalho

January 23, 2019

poetry

By Salil Chaturvedi

Issue no. 11

It's hard going to the marsh with her.
It's mid-day. We are at my secret
place and the white lilies are in bloom.

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

Kiran

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

By Salil Chaturvedi

Issue no. 10

from this
great
height I
jettison
(lavender-smelling Kiran, are you listening?)
my seed into the
night of Mumbai towards the
ovum of earth

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

Kitchen Drawer Guests

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

By Mrinalini Harchandrai

Issue no. 10

They step out
when you sleep
or you’ve left the house
we gauge their size
from whorls in flour
or ant lines to fallen honey

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

Confluence

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

By Rochelle Potkar

Issue no. 10

Waters when they evaporate, meet …
at a global conference, to speak of fish dropouts

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

Basanti has arrived ... Hallelujah

Selma Carvalho

November 27, 2018

poetry

By Marinella Proenca

Issue no. 10

The cogu echoes its koyal song
glibly — pitching its scores along spring’s tapestry: of birthing pods

Selma Carvalho

August 29, 2018

poetry

Two Poems: The Sea Knows the Itinerary of Pain

Selma Carvalho

August 29, 2018

poetry

Two Poems: The Sea Knows the Itinerary of Pain

By Saima Afreen

Issue no. 9

Our bodies are water
waiting to dock
at the shores
and give the voyage its closure.
It didn’t happen.

Selma Carvalho

August 21, 2018

poetry

Two Poems: To Monsoon Butterflies

Selma Carvalho

August 21, 2018

poetry

By Joseph Furtado

Issue no. 9

Come now kiss me for his sake,
Take a thousand kisses, take
Father dear is dead and gone,
I am left here all forlorn.