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Author: Paakhi Bhatnagar

Paakhi Bhatnagar is a student from India and an avid reader of historical fiction. She is a passionate feminist and blogs about current politics and feminist issues. She also possess the uncanny ability of turning everything into a debate.

a person alone, under a blanket of “friends”

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

And still you longed for someone To give you the kind of love they show in movies The one that doesn’t end with an empty text, One which flows through flowers and Wine bottles pouring at dinner parties. One which sings through tears, Birthed together in our very own refuge. Read more

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off-white

October 26, 2019November 7, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

Every writer should go to an asylum – she said we all are very sad, the conscious in my head and she said it in whispers we painted blue a numbing bed between my legs two fingers soothing the flood in my throat and the whites of the bathroom floor, Read more

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The Portrait of a Poet

September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

White walls of an insomniac closing in on the cold malice of human emptiness. I sit alone and wonder- The only callous of a life lived is the constant ache, for even change isn’t constant. Many nights I have sat on my bed and emptied the wells of my being Read more

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Moving on

July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

You are so much more than the scars on your wrists Or the ones on your back that no one sees, not even you You are a flower and you have been watered down And you have been stepped on The sun has barely kissed your skin And your tan Read more

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honeycomb

January 18, 2019January 19, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

we grow in towers and in hightides and blossom with the coming of winter in the anomaly of bittersweet outbursts we find some comfort in woolen sweaters. our lack of empathy, guarded in the white cuffs around our necks; there are tears meditating on your face, but we cry rebellion Read more

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What am I alive for?

December 6, 2018January 7, 2019 Paakhi Bhatnagar

What am I alive for? Is it to breathe the easy insolence of the wind, to see it circle around a cherry sky strike violets against the blue (birthing violence into a calm) causing merciful ripples into a dead lake. Is it to feel the fables rustle the leaves dense Read more

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When We’re Dead

October 19, 2018October 19, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

How long until I forget the sound of your voice- the sunlight seeping in through your bedroom window, you telling me you’d rather talk in the dark. Escaping to your terrace and taking pictures of the sunset, talking with the flowers blooming in the spring. Did you know I was Read more

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Atrophy

October 9, 2018October 7, 2018 Paakhi Bhatnagar

The gravel in her tongue atrophies along with the rest of her body, lurid and every bite in is just another bite out. There is a road that travels down her throat and each tongue that rides it through feels the sick burn of falling over cold, tiled floors kneeling Read more

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