Minakhi Misra

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  • Prices of Purchased Affection

    I always went shopping with Munna.
    He knows where exactly to go:
    Where the clothes are just bad enough
    to skip the retail stores, but not so much
    that you can figure out that they are discards;
    Where the sweets are made in boiling ghee
    And not the oil that sticks to your fingers
    Thicker than the grease on your bicycle chain;
    Where the vegetables are just out of farms
    And the women from the countryside
    Do not know the trickeries of bargaining.

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    December 26, 2014
    Poems
  • Monsoon Moods

    I see myself in the clouds today:
    How, with the darkness of my sorrow,
    I shroud the sunshine of everyone’s joy;
    How the anguished lightning fills my eyes,
    Moments before I thunder out in rage,
    Throwing a pall of tantrums to hide
    The deluge of tears that escape anyhow.

    December 16, 2014
    Poems

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