Category Archives: friendship

fantastic hard boiled candy

fan- ta- stick sticky icky this hard boiled sharp- nelled candy that’s crunchy, munching on you or me: sal- ac(e)- ious never ever gracious- lie in gaudy georgette or silky sly satin cottoned tales in no colors pale. why is … Continue reading

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30

oh, yes! oval is beautiful- gently smoothed, rounded, no rough edges, a charmer for sure, too eee- la!- zzz- tic for a mere zero. but what of the hooked, hawkish three? not that i want the oval to bloat up, … Continue reading

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Flounce

Meghalaya: cloud flounces in azure and fuchsia and silken white lacy scallops; well, that was Meghalaya when i was nine. flounces, i still know: that is me every time you turn glib and gab me into disgraceful flow like an … Continue reading

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Holes

Tears rolled down her sagging cheeks even as she kept rubbing at her already-reddened eyes. The story came out in bits and spluttering spurts, punctuated by little sobs here and there. “Thoday is your birthday this week. I wanthed to … Continue reading

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A Lone Whistle

she came to visit me in my state of decay, shaking the dust off me, the last curtain lazy in this vacant loft in this empty house. she sneaked in, soft and sunny, how’s a-lone you, asked she, the whistling … Continue reading

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Tequila Sunset

gooey skies and a quarter moon, loony fun and syrupy swoon, it’s a late late night and it’s sundown too soon.   four pairs of feet dangling down, tapping the sides of mossed down, water lapping all around on a … Continue reading

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to you and me: wild flowers

What IS it that we share? Much beyond thai curry and a tendency to hurry, won’t you agree? Is it just kindergarten capers, my tears and your cheers? Or the adolescent years- fifteen year old wonders and acned fears? How … Continue reading

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murmur of rumour

hear me out, i said and you made out what you did, and repeated when i was out of hearing. am i  that important to be talked about, a topic of interest or is it the scope to twist and … Continue reading

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Baby’s world

my eyelids had refused to come unstuck and sleep the night before, even as i coaxed her to sleep, with an out-of-tune lullaby, my baby, about to start school, her first shaky step into her own world, of wail and … Continue reading

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geometry of love

30 degrees in the morning’s cuckoo clock and we were ten years younger, reliving a day when a diary entry had us in a furore, each of us, bisecting, intersecting, making the author flush in anger, enraged that the nose … Continue reading

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