Gratitude

You reach outand check into see if a friend’s doing good,and the conversation branches outinto the comfort food you miss,the idli you last had five months agoat the placethat was right behind your home,still is,but now seems like a universe away. And then, the next day,out of nowhere,she sends in a box of,yes idli. The …

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Improv Love

When words took on shapes and bodies spoke, with outstretched arms, with dancing eyes, with the flick of a wrist, with that slight turn of the lips, with a raised eyebrow, when hands and feet and hips and fingers sculpted stories, retold histories, spelled out sounds without consonants or vowels. When we did not need …