NusharaHushOn nights when sleep wouldn’t come to me, I started sitting up, just listening to the house pulsing in the dark with the accumulated weight…Sep 22, 20221Sep 22, 20221
NusharaA brief caricature of intimacyLater, I wipe my face and mouth with a wet towel, and brush my teeth with the last of the toothpaste, and ignore the way my bones rattle in…Apr 27, 20221Apr 27, 20221
NusharaThe trouble with ChomskyLearning about Noam Chomsky and the theory of “Innateness” in language acquisition as a ‘non-native speaker’ of English inevitably, I…Apr 25, 20221Apr 25, 20221
Nushara(non)descript-ions of warThe thing about a war is that it’s never over — not even when we set off the crackers and call for the papare and blot out the small print…Apr 20, 20221Apr 20, 20221
NusharaDeliriumWhile in quarantine, during the fourth week or so that I hadn’t moved from home, I sometimes had trouble sleeping in the swallowing…Mar 21, 2022Mar 21, 2022
NusharaTime TravelTime confounds. It rises and rises like water. Often I would sit on the old couch and feel thirteen years old again until I remembered I…Feb 25, 2022Feb 25, 2022
NusharaThe Politics of DesireFor the first time in a long time I wondered what I looked like to him.Feb 22, 2022Feb 22, 2022
NusharaPresque VuWhen the darkness swallows the sunset shadows we’d gulp down our scalding, paper cupped, machine-born coffees before stepping outside, the…Feb 9, 20221Feb 9, 20221