Of dreams and dreamers

Here's a fun collaboration I worked on recently. Barkha Kumari has been blogging about her vivid dreams at Diaries of a dreamworm - some of her dreams are beyond dream-level crazy. So she recently featured a poem of mine, about a surreal dream I had during the lockdown, and also a fun interview where she threw …

Searching for sparks

This piece is a little experimental and mostly accidental. I'd welcome constructive feedback. Do we measure sparks by the fire they produce? By how they sprout tongues and feet, traveling miles, sometimes lighting a ring of fire so they're back where they broke out? What about the sparks that don't empty themselves, that never find …

Moving stars

You say the stars need to realign themselves. I think the sky is a kaleidoscope – we can turn and twist it a little, tap the far end, and watch constellations rearrange themselves. If only it was that simple, but gravity gets in the way, and there is only so much you can do about …

The bird’s eye view from atop a rainbow

I’ll let you in on a secret. If you jump high enough, you can land on a rainbow. If you time your leap to the precise millisecond, you will have green under your feet. You may also verify if there’s indeed a pot of gold somewhere. If you are fast but not fast enough, you …