Sublime

The Telugu poet Aarudra is supposed to have said, ‘The oyster doesn’t make the pearls / with the jeweller in mind. The poet doesn’t make poems / with the reader in mind.’

Beauty has its purposes, which, all our lives and at every season, it is our opportunity, and our joy, to divine.

Introduction

A touch between us that lingers just long enough to know we’ve put some work into our love for each other. We’ve made something that no one outside can get through. I do not waste time or language on our enemies, beloveds. But if I ever did, I would tell them that there is a river between what they see and what they know. And they don’t have the he

sometimes entire libraries of epic poems land in your palm as a single paper-thin sigh. sometimes it is as simple as love.