At the time of the sun's spitting saffron out in the sky,
my life turned into a dazzling Gorgon and smiled.
The Gorgon with her snaky hair and tempting eyes
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for Sonja Broderick
'...the nameless pain from which one feels there can be no way out,
and one knows despair is absolute.'
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for my father
The King saw his chiefs stand like the deaf
(brave sepoys stirred blood in their veins,
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(for Monira Qais)
I had just slipped straight from my mother’s womb
into this house where rumours breed like spawn,
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Shadows fell on indispensable hopes and grace.
All of our inherited clemency cowered;
and the currency of hopes was almost over,
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"... to be alone. Because it's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends." - from The Joke by Milan Kundera
Everyday people say it's my heart
that arches over life like a bridge
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1. To the Apostle of Killing Degeneration
Thunderlight had startled your eyes like an ape's,
and the ministers you ushered into a dungeon
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“Lest the wise world should look into your moan,
And mock you with me after I am gone.” – W. Shakespeare
1.
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After school, I used to climb at home
the one and only custard apple tree;
(our house was lonelier all day
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