Commonwealth Literature

My Grandmother’s House There is a house now far away where onceI received love……. That woman died,The house withdrew into silence, snakes movedAmong [...]

Background Casually A poet-rascal-clown was born,The frightened child who would not eatOr sleep, a boy of meager bone.He never learned to fly a [...]

Obituary Father, when he passed on,left duston a table of papers,left debts and daughters,a bedwetting grandsonnamed by the tossof a coin after him, [...]

A River  In Madurai,city of temples and poets,who sang of cities and temples,every summera river dries to a tricklein the sand,baring the sand [...]

Telephone Conversation The price seemed reasonable, locationIndifferent. The landlady swore she livedOff premises. Nothing remainedBut self-confession. “Madam”, I warned,“I hate a wasted journey [...]