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Tamarind: Sweet and Sour Poems About Love, Loss, Longing and Life

Debut Poetry Book

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Poem My Mother and the Atthapoo in The Indian Year Book of Poetry 2022 (Hawakal)
Poem My Mother and the Atthapoo in The Indian Year Book of Poetry 2022 (Hawakal)
Published haiku poems in “any moment now”, 2023 (Yavanika Press)
Published haiku poems in “any moment now”, 2023 (Yavanika Press)
Fall to Pieces, 2023, Inkfeathers Publishing
Fall to Pieces, 2023, Inkfeathers Publishing
Poem The Fortune Teller in TMYS Review June 2022: Beliefs & Social Customs 2022 (Readomania)
Poem The Fortune Teller in TMYS Review June 2022: Beliefs & Social Customs 2022 (Readomania)
Poem My Mother and the Atthapoo in TMYS Review Decemeber 2022: Society & Artistic Endeavours 2022 (TMYS in Collaboration with Oxford University Press)
Poem My Mother and the Atthapoo in TMYS Review Decemeber 2022: Society & Artistic Endeavours 2022 (TMYS in Collaboration with Oxford University Press)
Poem The Hospital Bed in TMYS Review Dec 2021 (TMYS in Association with Oxford University Press)
Poem The Hospital Bed in TMYS Review Dec 2021 (TMYS in Association with Oxford University Press)
Short Story Ambaram Veedu: The Sky House in Rooted: Stories of Homes, 2021
Short Story Ambaram Veedu: The Sky House in Rooted: Stories of Homes, 2021
Poem The Home Maker in The Home Makers Short Stories & Poems, 2021
Poem The Home Maker in The Home Makers Short Stories & Poems, 2021
Poem Some Shades of Love are Grey in One Hundred Shades of Love: An Anthology of Love Poetry 2021 (AIFEST)
Poem Some Shades of Love are Grey in One Hundred Shades of Love: An Anthology of Love Poetry 2021 (AIFEST)
I Want to be Like You, Verse of Silence, 2022
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I Wake Up, Unstamatic, 2022
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The Memory of Violence and Barren Womb, Usawa Literary Review, December 2023
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A Father's Failing Memory, Madras Courier, April 2023
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Haiku Universe, 2022

ebbing tide father's failing memory

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FreshOut Magazine, 2022

pink magnolia I bloom in your embrace

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Whiptail, 2022

vermillion sky I try living for one more day

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Failed Haiku, 2022

spring his pride my shame

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ai li Gembun Anthology 6, 2022

kitchen walls

clinking vessels
drown out the sound
of sobbing


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a home
inside
a home

pigeon's nest

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anorexia

but why
am I
gaining weight?

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what's in a name?

everything
that keeps you from
getting killed

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aquarium

do fish
ever think of
a parallel universe?

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Failed Haiku, Issue #80

rice drum
amma’s piggy bank
even now

white dress I am no longer me

gulping down mango memories whole

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Bones, 2023

amidst the mundane a terrarium

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Black and White Haiga, 2023

winter moon we become one

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Prune Juice, 2023

anthropocene the home I no longer recognize

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Under the Basho, 2022

over suburban marshlands the V of flamingos

the reiteration of life spring sun

marriage migration—
where do I belong

empty womb
how my 35-year-old self
appears

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Whiptail, 2022

the end of mourning neelakurinji

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Failed Haiku, 2023

mulberry memories of the malabar

music teacher's crescendo

a riot of laughter

among the students

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