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5.46, Andheri Local by Arundhati Subramaniam

to dice carrots / or dice a lover

Cutting the Sun by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

rasp-red and muscled as the tongues / of iguanas. They are trying to lick

How To Write A Poem by Bhanu Kapil

Have carnal encounters with anyone but another poet.

Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist by Kirun Kapur

You looked at Her hand, but you didn’t save Her from a firing squad.

The Cardiologist’s daughter contemplates a heart by Natasha K. Moni

When will science/learn what her father knows/—the heart is a house

Cutter by Rajiv Mohabir

Now,/hide your darkness in lines—/who reads poetry anyway?

Engraving of a Bison on Stone by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

The land resists/Because it cannot be/Tempted, or broken

Refusing Rama by Subhashini Kaligotla

Like a clay pot / she swelled, leaking me ...

The Goddess Left Behind by Vandana Khanna

When a girl can dream and not be frightened

Shiva, She Will Rise by Nabina Das

she will show her lotus palms, / nails of orphaned nights.