Steel Tumblers
"Worthy only for drinking basic water, but without which may lead to struggling at the life-death brink."
for the ones still awake when the rest of the house is not
A single lamp. The hum of a refrigerator. Objects that spend their days being useful and their nights being themselves. Poems about the ordinary, examined slowly.
"Worthy only for drinking basic water, but without which may lead to struggling at the life-death brink."
"Rudimentary and often neglected, yet so prime akin to unstoppable time — connects the world like experiences that connect lives."
"Life too is an abstract invisible knife that helps when used correctly and destructs when used imprudently."
"She isn't a city, she is a vast ocean of openness and belonging, taking us in one and all."
"A doctor is very eccentric for he is both a God and a devil in the eyes of the public."
"I wish I was a bird, soaring through the clouds light and dark, unconstrained by the technicalities of the societal laws."
"Reviving the morbid souls she touches and rejuvenating the entire hellish universe."
"The beauty of choice is that it's a double-edged sword — just like water, it helps us live and also decimates us."
"Such is the power of a soul that for every misogynistic khal it births an even stronger Khaleesi."
"When it's about love, why hate it — is it a sin to just love? Love and let others love."
"It is the patriarchal society that has inadvertently made her — the fiery, resilient, and indestructible woman."