Tag Archives: coax

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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Cheap Pain(t)

Disgustingly doe-eyed, i spin thread after thread, silky, supple, in swathes, begging to be stroked, s(m)oothed and woven.. if the threads end up tangled and  knotted, in clumps, warted, it’s your unstroke, absent and ignorant. Carefully coquettish, i coax words … Continue reading

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