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June 24, 2016 |
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A self trained artist, Seema Kohli’s exhaustive practice that spans over three decades embraces a variety of mediums including paintings, sculpture, installation and performance. The...
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June 22, 2016 |
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I had been in New York for a month when it started. I came from Israel—a finite place, its meaning already set. It’s done. Israel is like a piece of luggage too heavy to open and...
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June 21, 2016 |
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As I lazed about, freshly woken from a late afternoon nap, my arm tipped the Styrofoam take-out bowl on the stool beside my bed. Emptied of dumplings I had since eaten, it did a quick...
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June 8, 2016 |
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My ovaries beat like a heart, pinhead egg crates are tiny satellites, float so slight, we cannot feel the work, what lived in our mothers now lives in us. A shallow panic attack every...
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April 15, 2016 |
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When we do everything for which the moon is named empty nobody can tell me a damn thing I’m the offspring of a shadow and don’t care who knows it I sit on the stoop listening to...
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April 11, 2016 |
in Poetry |
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The butter slices, avocado pieces fall into his lips, slide into the song of sealed eyes humming; I stay only until I know which of the two is doing the seducing Simple things, like...
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April 10, 2016 |
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“To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.”–Aristophanes -1- He grabs the hot dog, positions it and grins. Varicose and flabby, weary and...
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April 9, 2016 |
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After dinner when I was a child we’d walk from 17th Street up the hill to visit my aunt and uncle, Zia Rosa and Zio Gianni. Zio built a huge grape arbor at least thirty feet long and 20...
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February 28, 2016 |
in Fiction |
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Sharada died on a day when everyone in the village was sleeping late after the ballet performance by a local troupe as a part of the annual temple festivals that lasted till 3 in the...
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February 14, 2016 |
in Poetry |
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She stayed seven years, snow in snow out. Listened to echoing jazz guitars and shook broad doggy dog paws. Dusted brains, almost daily, and thought about trips to Ireland the day after...
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January 3, 2016 |
in Poetry |
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You could be addicted to emptiness, in particular mine more than others. As if my way of offering fulfillment required a reversal of what you assume to be a branch stripped of green down to...
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December 18, 2015 |
in Poetry |
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I taste of salt. My fingers cannot sit still. I smuggled tears from smile to smile. When I became too tired to run, I swam. What love does not reach beyond borders? I swam. I rose. I flew....
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November 15, 2015 |
in Poetry |
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first adornment it’s ramadan i’m nine years old drinking juice of crushed & strained hibiscus it darkens my lips a bitten red...
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November 8, 2015 |
in Poetry |
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Think of the day you learned by looking & listening: a song & silence All at once, stunned, You know When the very act Of presence or pretending Becomes contractual, Bodies,...
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November 7, 2015 |
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First I pay a visit to Saint Rita to place a white rose at her feet. The rose is a tightly closed bud wrapped in tissue paper, with a tube of water at the end of its stem to keep it fresh....