The Table — Plume Poetry | Finalist for the Julia Darling Memorial Prize

Ghazal for Dida — Rattle | Highly Commended by Anthony Anaxagorou for the Ledbury Poetry Competition

Euphemisms — Red Wheelbarrow Prize Winner

What it is is what it is not and what it is not is what it is — Rattle Editor’s Choice for the Ekphrastic Challenge

There is no time here — Bellevue Literary Review | Editor’s Choice Honorable Mention, John & Eileen Allman Prize for Poetry

A braid of unknowing I tie before you — North American Review | Honorable Mention for the James Hearst Poetry Prize

My childhood and its scent of a bird caressed — Literary Taxidermy Award Finalist

a condensed history of my father’s addiction — AGNI

Water under the bed — The Margins

Dida — Colorado Review

Snot everywhere — Shenandoah

Things with which we foul the Ganges — Cincinnati Review

Portrait of a Father as an Alcoholic — Rattle

What my father sees when he looks into the mirror — Crannóg

God is a serial killer | Notes on Withering — Prairie Fire

Denial Dances on a Moonless Street in the Arms of Blame — Midway Journal 1000 Below Prize Finalist

राम नाम सत्य है — Nifty Lit

Circles — Rattle Poets Respond

There are 51 descriptions of you on the wall so far — The Ex-Puritan

What it is is what it is not and what it is not is what it is — Rattle Editor’s Choice for the Ekphrastic Challenge

How to Quit — HOAX

Time is a Motherfucker — Strange Horizons

I am is a sentence, you are is not — Poetry Online

Tug of war between whisper and rumor — Frontier Poetry

Lizard | Right behind you | Remains of the house — The Offing Mag

Ganga | Back Home — Prism Review

Nameless | the way waiting becomes an injury — Arts & Letters

Holding the fingers of water — adda, Commonwealth Foundation

Sore Throat — Nimrod

Aubade | Heritage | sleep fragments — The Ocotillo Review

a broken melody — Sundog Lit

nonalcoholic nights — Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Metamorphosis — Southword 44

Endlessness — Atticus Review

Rings of Saturn — Banshee Lit Review

This plague of ritual | unscrewing the bolts of hope | Kaali guides me to shavasana — Menagerie

Questionnaire with the heartbeat of a car crash | Questionnaire with a waterfall | Questionnaire as the lump in Ma and Kaali’s throat — Add to Cart Magazine

Saffron | My Helpless Ode | Nine Reasons to Write a Ghazal in a Time of Fascism — The Bombay Literary Magazine

Blindfold — The Indian Quarterly

We didn’t bury him / there’s nothing left of him / he is the earth and the rivers — Little Engines

Salman, Bombay — Rattle Poets Respond

When I ask my sister to explain his bad breath — New Welsh Review

Mosaic of my Father — Humber Literary Review

Grief does not wait for death — The Deadlands

Clotheslines | Tea — Abandon Journal