Staff Picks

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Phantom Dreams and Ghost Pain

By Muskaan Ohri

at seven you look up at the sky
drowning your eyes in the yellow moon above

Ode to A Land I Have Never Known

By Syeda Namayah Fatima Hussain

My head tucked in the crevice of her knees
like a creeper round its roots,
I trace the fading lines on her palm...

Grocery shopping as an artist

By Diya Kandhari

I see the drought of parched lips,
The disdainful shabbiness of comfort

Sunrise Lolly & Strawberry Heart Pops

By Carl Colaco

Ingredients:
3 am DM’s
Juice of a relationship
1 love, peeled and chopped

Summer

By Sneha Vyas

When you told me
you had a surprise planned,
I hoped it was Disneyland.
Instead, you said it was

Consented Rape

By Naman Garg

I have been touched by men
A hundred times before
And I prepare my flesh

Summer Haven

By Atalant Nadkar

The soothing touch of the
Cold floor on his bare skin;
The knots in his limbs uncoiled

Indian Summers

By Mereshah Merybal

“April is the cruellest month”,
Said Eliot, and pleasantly unaware,
I never thought to question him

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