Sreekala Sivasankaran is a poet, author and translator from Kerala, India. She writes fiction, poetry and essays in Malayalam and English mainly and also in Hebrew and Hindi.
The squirrel came today
Separated from the mother
Half dead in the hands of the playing cats
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Can you see Ma standing on the balcony?
I can see her standing on the balcony
Against the backdrop of the Warli landscape of the bedsheet
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