Monthly Archives: May 2021

“What is the distance between the earth and the stars?” My five-year-old nephew asks, wide-eyed. The rocking horse in his bedtime story book Summons a unicorn and goes wherever it wishes. “I want to ride on that horse and get to the stars. I want to ask amma why she went away so far…” [WhenContinue reading “Unicorn and the stars”

Coal – scum of the earth. Burned in the hearth, lent warmth, & powered the world with its labour. Diamond – precious stone. Adorned women, fuelled wars, & consumed the labour of others.  [I wrote this poem at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests in America last year following the murder of GeorgeContinue reading “Two fates”