The 2020 US elections were not just about differing political views. People’s lives were impacted on the basis of their skin color, their gender, their sexuality, or their religion. It bred uncertainty and fear in people who had been targeted for years. Human beings...
AMERICA – 1978 America And your trillion-dollar Economy And your FM stereo And your serpentine highways of lonely people Slanting westwards into the setting sun Leave me alone I am one of the starving millions of India Who you’re mommy asked you...
This poem was written as a response to the piece Navigating Autism. I was moved by what Swathi Chettipally had written and I thought, “life goes on with all its ebbs and flows, perhaps accentuated at this challenging time, for children with...
Heroes of War Bracing themselves heavy armor coat after coat danger is principal. They enter war an invisible enemy the fiercest predator with an unidentifiable weakness. Their compassionate hearts drive a noble sacrifice for the protection of lives they...
ma To the woman who loved what had not yet become, making promises with unfolding fabric: We shared skin, but from you I grew into my own — an inherited thing inhabited, but never out grown. You hollowed a home within yourself, doorways forged from flesh,...