crow jane

Kattaryna has lost her fight with cancer at age 34. Dvotchka, you are missed.


VI.

Just forty-fours hours in the threshold city
And the film-maker jettisons his camera

Because the truth flies in his face
Like that damned parrot! — Bernadette

Is no different from the woman armed
With a hot iron, and images collapse like

Galaxies in the urchin dust of Delhi's exposed
Alleyways — and it is not India that he has found

It is home

-- Rukmini Bhaya Nair