Identity

"When the war was over, he came back

a shadow, and shadows don't speak." - Karin Molde



"In the kitchen / mother at the cooker / back turned
to me / always / down the wrong end of a path /
gravel-strewn / potholes every other step / I must
crawl for miles / to see her downcast eyes /
swim a river deep with swirling pools / losing
breath in churning waves /" - Jenny Mitchell



"Mispronounced words are buried

beneath my tongue,

the poetry of a land I've never stepped on" - Amanda N. Butler



"The problem is...the smell. No one tells you about the smell. The pandits should also match smells while choosing husbands." - Swara Shukla