Identity

"When the war was over, he came back a shadow, and shadows don’t speak." - Karin Molde "In the kitchen / mother at the cooker / back turned to me / always / down the wrong end of a path / gravel-strewn / potholes every other step / I must crawl for miles / to see her downcast eyes / swim a river deep with swirling pools / losing breath in churning waves /" - Jenny Mitchell "Mispronounced words are buried beneath my tongue, the poetry of a land I’ve never stepped on" - Amanda N. Butler "The problem is…the smell. No one tells you about the smell. The pandits should also match smells while choosing husbands." - Swara Shukla