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An extract from ‘Letter to Pessoa’
Extracts of Short Stories / Michelle Cahill

An extract from ‘Letter to Pessoa’

Posted on August 20, 2016 by Poem and Dish • Leave a comment

When I open my eyes Aleandro has left, his bed sheet folded. For a moment I’m in Santa Monica. The whirring fan, the garish pink walls seem vaguely familiar. Alcohol settles like a carpet of snow falling softly in my head. On the desk next to your Selected, there’s a note, saying “Thanks” with no … Continue reading →

How the Dusk Portions Time
Michelle Cahill / Poetry

How the Dusk Portions Time

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Poem and Dish • Leave a comment

How the Dusk Portions Time Then one evening, after the gallery, hung with invisible abstracts, you take me apart to flesh the miniatures: a fleck of craquelure, speckles of mascara from my               shadow eyes, already panda-streaked. I fail to notice how you slip the pieces in your coat pocket. Distracted as I am by wolf … Continue reading →

Dying to Meet You
Michelle Cahill / Poetry

Dying to Meet You

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Poem and Dish • Leave a comment

Dying to Meet You for Aravind Adiga Maybe it wasn’t deferred by the hardness of rain, my lack of sincerity, your lover, an unfinished book, a hangover; the cigarettes I didn’t smoke to save my lungs. I wasn’t breathless last night. I dreamt an email I opened from a publisher wishing me well was an … Continue reading →

Laksmī under Oath
Michelle Cahill / Poetry

Laksmī under Oath

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Poem and Dish • 2 Comments

Laksmī under Oath I left my footprints on the threshold of ancient temples, pointing inwards, like the flow of fortune. In 200 BC, well-intentioned seers fashioned me, etched in bronze on lintels, the gateways to the city. The land was barren, a salt marsh where Indra slayed a three-headed fiend, pole stars drifting and rivers … Continue reading →

The Photographer’s Light
Michelle Cahill / Poetry

The Photographer’s Light

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Poem and Dish • Leave a comment

The Photographer’s Light All the petals scatter in the folding light. The road before me has its own emissary. Tree branches bow to changed weather, this afternoon they were sunset’s veins. Birds lash the dark, dissolving sky, make a scene of leaving where something like dying is not the reverse of memory. The future’s rank … Continue reading →

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