Pablo Neruda – Balachandran Chullikkadu
Chullikad's translation of Tonight i can write the saddest lines
September 2023
April 2023
You’ve been a coward in the fight
No Enemies You have no enemies, you say? Alas! my friend, the boast is poor; He who has mingled in the fray Of duty, that the brave endure, Must have [...]
February 2023
Style – Bukowski
style is the answer to everything_ a fresh way to approach a dull or a dangerous thing. to do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous [...]
Robert Wood Lynn poems
l am trying to find a way to tell you this. There are things that trying solves but this is not one of them. About the Phones Closing my [...]
June 2020
Explained: The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim
The Autobiography of Khwaja Mustasim I stood for twenty years a chess piece in Córdoba, the black rook. I was a parrot fed melon seeds by the eleventh [...]
Desire – Stephen Dobyns
What is desire but the wish for some relief from the self, the prisoner let out into a small square of sunlight with a single red flower and a bird crossing the sky, to lean back against the bricks with the legs outstretched, to feel the sun warming the brow, before returning to one's mortal cage, steel doors slamming in the cell block, steel bolts sliding shut?
A Satyr against Reason and Mankind
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, Or anything but that vain animal, Who is so proud of being rational. His senses are too gross; and he'll contriveA sixth, to contradict the other five; And before certain instinct will prefer
May 2020
Aazhiyum thirayum kattum
Aazhiyum thirayum kattum by Sree Narayana Guru, rendition by T.M.Krishna. Video.
January 2020
Know a guy named Gabe though…
Angels don't come to the reservation. Bats, maybe, or owls, boxy mottled things. Coyotes, too. They all mean the same thing- death. And death eats angels, I guess, because [...]
December 2017
Reading Tomas Transtromer
THE COUPLE They turn the light off, and its white globe glows an instant and then dissolves, like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then a rising. The hotel [...]
February 2017
Women like you drown oceans
"Once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. - how's that for a happily ever after?"
June 2015
Transtromer: We do not surrender. But want peace.
Tomas Transtromer writes lines like "We got ready and showed our home. The visitor thought: you live well. The slum must be inside you."