poetry.
on my rhymes and remedies.
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Elegy for the Unmade Bed
A meditation on the domestic and the abandoned — the sheets that hold the shape of someone gone.
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What the Rain Forgets
On repetition and erasure — how the monsoon returns each year without memory of what it once washed away.
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Ghazal for the Half-Lit Room
A formal experiment with the ghazal — each couplet a window, each window a small refusal of light.
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Portrait of My Father as a Cinema Seat
On fathers, projection, and the dark rooms where we learned what we could not say to each other.
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Ode to the Word I Cannot Translate
Some words live only in the language that made them. This is a poem about the grief of untranslatability.