Morning flicks her tongue around the curtain, coffee with violets grazing My arms, a sheath, body velvet swimming around me, defenseless blanket I am thrumming as the… Read more “Fear, Partitions and Damage-Aakriti Kuntal”
Category: Aakriti Kuntal
Lotus- Aakriti Kuntal
Upwards, these lips, boat-like inundating rivers within their pondering girth Upwards, this skin, cellophane treasures collecting color from the sky’s subservience Upwards, hand, mouth, body Organs shattering… Read more “Lotus- Aakriti Kuntal”
Expanse- Aakriti Kuntal
Sky devolves, loose cloth, parchment of coarse light shifting through time The skinny arm of peacock trees, goes round and round collapsing like a skeleton over rescued… Read more “Expanse- Aakriti Kuntal”
Offering- Aakriti Kuntal
Give me swollen hands Brandished, perforated, silver leek of rum My mouth is a tangy trench it yearns for terrible things . Place slender bones beneath my… Read more “Offering- Aakriti Kuntal”
Hallucination- Aakriti Kuntal
Vapors, inhaled and exhaled, your porous skin whistles Your skin has melted my darling and lit these oiled sinks that I call palms Here I collect you,… Read more “Hallucination- Aakriti Kuntal”
Ferment-Aakriti Kuntal
[Poem and art by Aakriti Kuntal] I fell in love with a different kind of earth Simmering Blue and glazed yellow walls Glimmering second coats Life burning beneath… Read more “Ferment-Aakriti Kuntal”