Lens and Flares

06/24/2026

The Long Way Back

I do not buy the ticket. I keep the boy a boy, I keep the tree, and the light switch exactly where my hand remembers. I keep a house where the hinge still complains. I keep a lane the rain has not yet hardened. I keep my mother's voice in the next room, counting something, never finished counting....

I do not buy the ticket. I keep the boy a boy, I keep the tree, and the light switch exactly where my hand remembers. I keep a house where the hinge still complains. I keep a lane the rain has not …

06/22/2026

नयाँ कविता -

शीर्षकविहीन।

तर म जान्दछु,

म पुग्दा
मेरो घरले मलाई चिन्ने छैन।
भित्ता पोतिएको हुनेछ।
चौखटले मलाई नचिनी बस्नेछ।
चुकुल अहिले कसैले तेल हालिसक्यो होला।
बत्तीको स्विच अर्कैको हातले भेट्टाउने छ।
र म उभिनेछु,
पाहुना भएर,
आफ्नै आँगनमा।

तर म जान्दछु, म पुग्दा मेरो घरले मलाई चिन्ने छैन। भित्ता पोतिएको हुनेछ। चौखटले मलाई नचिनी बस्नेछ। चुकुल अहिले कसै....

06/15/2026

marginalia

A poem about loving the letter more than the sending - and the letter that goes out everywhere but to you....

A poem about loving the letter more than the sending – and the letter that goes out everywhere but to you.

05/16/2026

The Saxons had a name for what Rome left behind: enta geweorc. The work of giants. They weren't wrong. Before the Eagle, there were Stonehenge builders, blue-painted warriors, and an emperor who declared victory over the sea. The story of Roman Britannia starts here.

05/13/2026

कविता: लव-कुशको नागरिकता

Check the blog to read more. Link to the post🔗 :
https://kafka.blog/2025/07/14/labkush/

04/19/2026

One World Trade Center Under the Manhattan Bridge.

Dumbo, Brooklyn

04/18/2026

it was a bright new day in april when the light breathed fresh.
~prawss

04/17/2026

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
~ George Orwell, 1984

04/15/2026

Manhattaedge 2026.

04/12/2026

when the moon stayed for the day.