POETRY – Concrete Faeries

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:10+00:00POETRY|

What I think I know about the rain is that the pieces of water drown your thoughts. The sounds [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:19+00:00POETRY|

Lo! How thou controls the rhyme of dream. Methinks you have the poison; plague me with my wit! Oh [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:26+00:00POETRY|

It took taking the subway for the first time alone, travelling to Gowanus― to eat tacos and wander with [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:32+00:00POETRY|

Dimples on the skin, infiltrating the gaps beneath my nails my fingertips growing numb after constant caressing. Little orange [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:37+00:00POETRY|

The sink filled.Droplets slowly releasing from the faucet’s molding mouth, minute by minute,creating ripples that spread and graze the very [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:44+00:00POETRY|

ⅰ.My mouth carries the aftertaste of powdery ashes. of clowns of memory after blowing (or more accurately, heaving) a light [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:19:50+00:00POETRY|

ⅰ.Prelapsarian billy goats on blue hills, blissfully unaware of the softened muscle in their middles chewing the dried weeds like [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-09-19T12:52:11+00:00POETRY|

the oil stains, splattered across the awnings of bakeries, remnants of the now-gone air conditioners-- childrens’ bicycles shoved behind [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-09-21T10:58:09+00:00Featured, POETRY|

the oil stains, splattered across the awnings of bakeries, remnants of the now-gone air conditioners-- childrens’ bicycles shoved behind [...]

Anaka Purohit2023-10-02T08:20:12+00:00Featured, POETRY|

Lying on the rug, And watching the spiral rain Come down once again. Sweet apples, I crave. Chasing remnants [...]