Poems

Verse, written for sound and image as much as for meaning.

My mother, the Earth

Poem · Published in Beyond the Box

The Earth as a mother — generous, destructive, impure, and owed a lifelong favour by her children.
India's history is truly glorious

Poem

From Ram and the Pandavas through the Mughals and the Marathas to the fifteenth of August 1947, in eight stanzas.
108

Poem

The number that turns up everywhere — in the Upanishads, on a japa mala, and in the stitches of a baseball.

My mother, the Earth