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I keep the words I didn't say
in a room inside my chest,
they rattle in the nighttime hours
when everything else is at rest.

I should have said: I love you more than this,
I should have said: you...

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I did not know it was the last time,
the last time would have looked like any day—
there was nothing in that ordinary moment
to suggest you were already on your way.

We said the ordinary things,
we parted...

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I was surrounded but alone,
which is the loneliness that cuts the most—
not the empty room at midnight
but the crowded room where you're a ghost.

Every laugh around me was not mine,
every conversation closed before I came,...

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Grief is a winter with no fixed end date,
no forecast, no reliable spring,
it comes and goes by rules you didn't write
and refuses to answer to anything.

Some days it lifts for hours at a stretch
and you...

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The first drop falls before you hear the thunder—
a dark spot on the pale stone of the path,
and then the smell arrives, that ancient welcome,
the earth releasing all its held-back warmth.

Petrichor: the word the scientists gave...

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We ran out in the rain on purpose—
not toward shelter but toward the wet,
the puddles already forming on the path,
the best part of a summer not done yet.

No adult would have sent us—
this was our...

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Nothing puts you to sleep like rain on a roof—
the particular percussion of the drops,
the rhythm that has no ambition to repeat itself
and yet returns before the motion stops.

I have slept to it in houses I...

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The monsoon arrives like a long-promised letter,
late, as always, but carrying what it owes—
the fields tilt toward it with something like relief,
every blade of grass and root that knows.

The sky grows heavy in the weeks before...

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I stood at the window watching the rain
the way it made the street an impressionist painting—
the umbrellas moving like a colony of birds,
the lights in puddles wavering and fainting.

There is a quality of afternoon in rain...

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We did not run from the rain—
we walked through it instead, slowly,
as if the world had given us permission
to be unhurried and wholly.

The rain does something to the ordinary—
it turns it luminous and silver-edged,
it...

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We ran barefoot through the summer grass
without once considering the glass—
the world was large enough to run in,
the afternoon too long to be slow.

The grass knew our weight by heart,
the path knew where we always...

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We played until the darkness came to find us—
not until a clock said time was up,
but until the light itself recalled us,
the dusk the only stop.

No one wanted to be the first to leave—
the game...

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She told her stories in the language of her hands,
the gestures filling in what words could not—
the demon larger than she could describe,
the hero braver than any school had taught.

We sat in the circle of her...

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The backpack was too big for the child carrying it—
it listed to the left on the way in,
but the pride was larger than the backpack,
and the pride leaned into it with a grin.

First day: the smell...

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Summer vacation was its own country—
a place that operated by different laws,
no alarm, no schedule, no particular purpose
except the great, ungoverned because.

The days were long in the way that only childhood
manages to stretch and hold...

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There was a tree that let me be a king—
the highest branch my throne, the sky my kingdom,
and from up there the neighborhood was miniature,
the adults small and robbed of their dominion.

I went there when I...

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My mother tongue is a river I was born into—
before I knew that rivers had a name,
I was already swimming in its grammar,
already shaped by its syllabic flame.

Hindi: the language of my first lullabies,
the tongue...

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Maa—the shortest word for the largest thing,
two letters that carry the whole first world,
the smell of home, the sound of safety,
the life before the life was unfurled.

No translation captures it completely—
Maa belongs to the language...

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In a foreign city in a foreign winter
I dream of the Deccan in July—
the particular green of the post-monsoon fields,
the particular quality of that sky.

They say the homeland is in the language—
wherever Hindi is spoken,...

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The Ganga does not know our names—
it has been running too long for that—
but it has carried the prayers of ten thousand years
in its cold and patient current, fact by fact.

At its banks the oldest rituals...

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