by Surosree Chaudhuri | Apr 30, 2022 | 2022 April, Poetry
I – the toxinpearly grey bane in palm sized perfume bottlestwo drops added to beetroot soup and served for supperso the antidote can dissolve their crueltylike flaking frost in the midday sunsinking its teeth into wicked, brutish fistsmaking them limp as their...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Apr 20, 2022 | 2022 April, Poetry
She made her living delivering phone sex. Her looks were immaterial. Her tongue, her throat, her voice – those were the curves, the siren eyes, the dress tightened round the thigh like a hangman’s rope. Her kid tucked in, prayers said, it was time to tell strangers...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Apr 4, 2022 | 2022 April, Poetry
the world slouches down around you, the accidental bump of elbows in hallways, skin beneath sweaters and skirts naked as beach bark stripped. the wind swallows you whole and it is like the subtle difference between autumn and spring— one dying, the other breathing...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Mar 20, 2022 | 2022 March, Poetry
Hail of the moonlight showers in my sole night These needles pierce my skin that wants holy warmth, and bloody loneliness dyes tonight indelible...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Mar 18, 2022 | 2022 March, Poetry
lucky stars are just as fickle as fireflies upon closer inspection. no wish or dream of yours could even drift far enough into the heights of the shadowy night to reach the cosmos watching from beyond. like the universe would even listen when it is eternal and you are...
by Surosree Chaudhuri | Feb 10, 2022 | 2022 February, Poetry
doorway crammed shut behind the last 50 years of journals broken histories & remedial futures, brocade forests, lettuce sky no one lives long inside a whale, architecture of knowledge goes viral arms like blown over corn stalks Red tongue of a speeding train,...
