Index of poems

• A breathless counsel
• Advaita: the ultimate question
• Aftermath
• Aggression
• Amnesia, selective
• An angel meeting me
• Another paradise lost
• Apologies for living on
• Becoming a Brahmin
• Blackboard poems
• Cinquains
• Composition
• Deciphering a culture
• Ekalaivan
• Elegy to my first keyboard
• Evil spirits
• Excerpts from a study-guide
• Fire
• For sale
• Frenzied light
• Fuchsia shock
• He replaces poetry
• How they prostitute a poem
• Hymns of a hag
• If everything comes crashing down
• Inheritance
• Justice is . . .
• Last love letter
• Lines addressed to a warrior
• Love and war
• Maariamma
• Marijuana murdered him
• Mascara
• Meeting the prophetess
• Mohandas Karamchand
• Monologue
• Mulligatawny dreams
• My lover speaks of rape
• Narration
• Non-conversations with a lover
• Prayers
• Returning home
• Reverence :: Nuisance
• Sage in the cubicle
• Songs of summer
• Storming in tea-cups
• Sun in the mouth
• The flight of birds
• The gods wake up
• Their daughters
• Touch
• We real hot
• We will rebuild worlds
• When the God drank milk
• Whispered intimacies
• Why do the heroes die?
• Work is worship, or so they said. . .
• You don’t know if you are yielding or resisting