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Lightning’s tail

“To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the…

Oct 10, 2022

Lightning’s tail

Oct 10, 2022

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Tabeer

The body knows itself to be pure water or pure burning. — Emmanuel Levinas, Proper Names

Jul 8, 2022

The author’s photograph as a child wearing a gold and green dress in the sunlight.

Jul 8, 2022

Malpaís / Badlands

I don’t go to poems for skillful ease or what’s rote. I come seeking an empathic witness, what the Sufi calls ruhul seyrani — the moving…

Dec 4, 2021

Malpaís / Badlands

Dec 4, 2021

The Smallest Tear

The first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between…

Sep 22, 2021

The Smallest Tear

Sep 22, 2021

Unhurried Blooming

After my best friend got divorced, she decided she needed a hobby.

Apr 4, 2021

A transparent tea cup containing flowering tea. Lavender and condiments strewn around it along with a bunch of leaves.

Apr 4, 2021

Four Elsewheres

After Bhanu Kapil : “To write the disaster as a mode of revision: detection, containment, recovery, reconstitution. Translation: 4 kinds…

Aug 22, 2020

Four Elsewheres

Aug 22, 2020

Layers of Fear

Psychological horror is a redundancy. violence is intimacy inverted. The mind’s dark train whistles through several cratered fiction of…

Jul 16, 2020

Layers of Fear

Jul 16, 2020

Notes from therapy: Scatterlings, egg-tray farming, abandoned dogs, insomnia & the pandemic

Lately, I have taken to growing coriander and mint in discarded egg-trays. It is interesting how almost all of 90s sci-fi films imagined…

Apr 26, 2020

A scattering of pink petals along a walking path

Apr 26, 2020

Today, We

Today we stay home and practice a radical vulnerability. Today we invite a trembling loneliness to the breakfast table and ask if it…

Mar 22, 2020

Mar 22, 2020

Safeguarding Online Mental Health

Content Note : Suicide and Self Harm Mention

Sep 11, 2019

Safeguarding Online Mental Health

Sep 11, 2019

ʇsnſ ʇuıɐs

ʇsnſ ʇuıɐs

scherezade siobhan or scherezadenfreude. psychologist. writer. runs thetalkingcompass — www.thetalkingcompass.com. personal website — www.zaharaesque.com

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