Rajiv Mohabir is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Cutlish (Four Way Books, 2021) and the memoir Antiman (Restless Books, 2021). He lives outside Boston and teaches in the MFA program at Emerson College.
Sept/Oct 2021
Pointer Broom
One by one she stripped vein from coconut palm frond and finger. Thumb and knife. Tip in slit slid down the length of green. Hindi bol sake hai? She smiled, […]
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2021
Ode to Waheeda Rehman’s Serpent Dance
A double-barrel beena, greened and hollowed, purrs in front of fangs. A hood extends from a grass basket, I don’t watch any man’s monkey-stare, my whole body beat and drum. […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
Kabira
hathailiyan ke mehndi halki hoike gayaab ii sarirwa mein bhala kaa tikaav You will your house of clay and breath a fortress. One day, ash and smoke will play fire […]
Poetry
Jan/Feb 2019
Vestigial Bones
jaunse tu bhagela ii toke nighalayihe je andar rahe tohar jahaaj ke nast karihe The remnant of hind limbs puppets an origin play that strings baleen to terrestrial ancestors. Occasionally […]