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Paradise Lost (?)

By: Shreya February 7, 2023

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I wrote back to the infamous image of ‘paradise lost’ that has been doing the rounds since Milton. Enjoy!

The other day, I interviewed an autumn leaf

By: Shreya October 19, 2022

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I picked up a leaf off the ground because I thought it was pretty. Did not expect a full interview, but here’s the poem-transcript.

Trees spilling with boughs of white flowers Like bright eyes, shrouded in the waxy palms of leaves I watch some fall, stolen by the breeze, I watch them fall (in love). Petals unfurling, they embrace the dusk with open arms, sprinkling the earth. Hush. Listen to them land: tiny, soft blankets for unseen slumbering fairies.…