Dogs are people, too
Before the rise of modern physics and astronomy, man thought he was at the centre of the universe. Now we know that we are but a…
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My heart is like an open wound
For M— My heart is like an open woundThat you dip your fingers into And turn them over and overUntil they are covered in my blood and pus Then you put them in your mouthAnd…
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Eternity, Part 2
For Nadine …And suddenly, just like that, I wanted to reread Love in the Time of Cholera. I wanted my soul to be caressed again by the fingers of those opening lines, like…
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Diffusion
A green ocean An awareness adrift on its waves, a disciple of silence, Dissolving At nightfall — the stars are reflected on the inky blackness of the water And the boundary…
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Dust in Love
Sexuality is the fire; love and eroticism are the two flames emanating from that fire. This is the theme of Octavio Paz’s last book The Double Flame, Love and Eroticism. Paz…
Aqua
1. Sharp and green the bamboo leaves surround your sex Silently, our lips speak of freedom. The blood that spurts from our mouths drop heavily into…
Reflections on All Souls Day
This Post is About Racism
Omar Faruk Babu Remembered
Trayvon Martin & Limon Hossain: Innocence on Trial
A Tribute to Science Fiction
This article was written when I was 16 years old and published in the popular astronomy journal “Akash Totthya.” They say it all began with Mary…
The Ironic Republic
Saint-John Perse was born in the Caribbean during the colonial era to a family that belonged to the privileged ruling class. He identified with the…
Reflections on All Souls Day
— First draft: All Souls Day 2022. Published: 14 March 2023. In his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Milan Kundera observes that animals don’t have…
With These Thoughts…
The other photo was taken by my friend Gordon Hatt at the wedding of my dear friends Sarah and David in Manitoulin Island during that same summer. After…
This Post is About Racism
This post is about racism: I had a wonderful time listening to classic bluesy songs at an international club in Gulshan tonight but the night didn’t…
My Homeland in the Imagination: An Homage to Salman Rushdie
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
Sister
Having adopted three cats while I lived there, I spent considerable time in the busy waiting room of an animal hospital in the town of Waco,…
Nightmasks and Other Poems
Nightmasks In dreamdarknessI come upon a nightEndless and vast Lit up by the moonlampcasting lightshadowson familiar faces — revealing theirnightmasks Wingseeds Dried wingseeds fall onThis alien…