The author of ‘Postmarked Quarantine’ and ‘How To Burn Memories Using a Pocket Torch’ has nine books to his credit. He is a journalist, father of a four-year-old, illustrator, and an editor. His works have been translated into twelve languages and published across the globe. 

A Murder

Two strangers and one angry
alley bark and growl. I press a button,
and a beep proclaims - it is three.

Time listens to a glass of water,
spill, to the baying, footsteps, sudden 
shriek and hush. Mourning 
tides in the morning. We circle and
wonder who may poison a canine.

The saddest one is my neighbour.
He works for a loan shark, threatens 
a defaulter over phone, not more than that;
anything unresolved he passes to another.
His daughter chose love and eloped.
The dog, oh the dog, a stray because 
he fears keeping a pet, opens him
with a thin weapon made of frost.

Blood on The Net

The girl masticates one corner 
of her handkerchief. Her name, 
sewn by father's aunt begins
where the hems meet. Saliva froths.
Her mouth forms that part of the sea
where river tides in. A blue fly darts
near the estuary. A few feet afar
her parents, sand buried, remind her
of the red crabs, funny and busy,
running sideways when confronted.
A thinned out fisherman drowning 
in wrinkles watch her, but she suspects
him to be vision impaired. His 
outside in sight cannot see the Sun 
set over the glasses of Cola, blood, 
crimson and viscous on drying net.