Zehra Naqvi, from The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose; “Dear Baba”
musings on april
Sylvia Plath (Leon Dabo), Edna St. Vincent Millay, E. E. Cummings, Naguib Mahfouz (Edgar Degas), E. E. Cummings (Édouard Manet), Rabindranath Tagore, T. S. Eliot (Edgar Degas), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Alphonse Osbert)
Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to David Gurewitsch featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
The town still haunts me, laced in lullabies, Where kin became the keepers of my fall. Their words were nettles dressed in silver light, Their love; a gilded cage like a funeral hall.
They laughed like witches dancing in the fire, While I, the ember, begged to turn to smoke. I breathed in brimstone dressed as blooming thyme, and woke each day beneath a phantom yoke.
The darkness kissed me soft, and made me kin. And though I flee, it lingers in my breath, that hallowed place, where all my wounds begin.
(Darjeeling’2021)
One day...I am going to wake up, look over and find you peacefully asleep beside me, I will admire how beautiful you are and I will draw you closer, showering you with tender kisses.
Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,
Kaam Challa by Madhur Virli
The Laugh Store, Gurgaon,01.01.2025
Unconditional love isn't a free pass to hurt me.
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