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22Jan
36 comments on “An Open Puzzle to Haiku Writers”

An Open Puzzle to Haiku Writers

Posted by umashankaron January 22, 2016January 24, 2016in Uncorked Angst36 Comments

Rose gold iPhone Fingerprints of feather Haiku they wrote.  The bowels jettison Smokes of pot noodle Dawn, noon and dusk.  Grumbling in the groin The brooding, wet cistern Agrees and sprays.  Young eves frolic In the pale light of the…

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17Jan

Protected: High Tide Rising

Posted by umashankaron January 17, 2016March 2, 2016in Fiction

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08Jan

Protected: Moonwalks with Coquettes

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04Jan

Protected: The Wine Red Kiss

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15Dec

Protected: The Wild Thing in Us

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23Oct

Protected: Come Away with Me

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30Aug
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The Silence of the Scrolls

Posted by umashankaron August 30, 2015September 21, 2015in Such is Life, Uncorked Angst41 Comments

It’s been a while since the nightingales sang in the darkness, fidgeting on boughs swaying in the night-wind. It’s been a while since the fingers splattered on the keyboard like an impromptu rain. There is this dike thin as rice…

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29Jun

Protected: Ayesha’s Face

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11May

Protected: The Spanish Witch

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12Apr

Protected: The Pallbearer

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23Mar

Protected: Sandhurst Road

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01Feb
32 comments on “The Pentagon Down”

The Pentagon Down

Posted by umashankaron February 1, 2015February 3, 2015in Such is Life32 Comments

The commander of the forces of associate provinces barged through the door of my tent two days before the clash of the legions. His chubby face was ashen with nothing less than volcanic fear; his fingers shook like peepal leaves…

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The Vegetable Rice Chef

Three Tamarind Trees

The Bungalow by the Tracks

End of Dusk

The Monk in the Rain

Sam was Sad

Painter of Omens

A Wobbly-legged Boy

The Ghosts of Jamun Trees

Another Day like This

Going Blind

The Evening That Killed

The Giggling Gladiator

Ghazals in English

Lend Me the Assassin

Molten Moons

Afterwards

Wet Charcoal

The Icicled Bosom

Years in the Ash

A Leaf by the Nightfall

Pebbles You May Like

‘Oumuamua

Thus Spake My Father

Hangmen of April

Goodbye, Cynthia Jobin

Haruki Murakami’s Well

The Same Night

The Nightfall of Blogging

The Crusted Slice

Silence of the Scrolls

Unnameable Things

Reading The Forgotten Waltz

Writing is So Long

Fungus on the Filter

Flames and Ashes

A Hole in My Pyjamas

The Slippery Slope

An Owl Reflects

The Last Salute

Truth Alone Triumphs

Zinfandel Moments

Ghostwalker

My son, must I stay?

Fra Lippo Lippi

While I be the Banker

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