Khero Khata

KHERO KHATA / The moon is a cheeseball and we are effervescent

The moon is a cheeseball,  Cratered, yellow, and huge like your eyeballs 

KHERO KHATA / Wash your fruits

I rush to the mirror. My gums are pristine, no wound, no sin. But when I look back at the fruit, the truth reveals itself: the flesh is blackened, writhing with tiny, hungry mouths. The rot has teeth

KHERO KHATA / déjà vu

Moving mindlessly and / Etching every alley along the way / With verses devoted to you

KHERO KHATA / Making headlines

We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead

KHERO KHATA / The morgues are full

In Gaza, the names of the martyrs slip through silence, lost to a world too distracted to listen

KHERO KHATA / Bluebird’s anthology

Who do I tell, sir? The walls do not listen, The roads do not answer back

KHERO KHATA / Egg drop soup

The cream colored bowl held the steaming, almost translucent yellow broth with traces of white, garnished by an array of green onions slashed in an angle.

KHERO KHATA / Fixed

The rain began at dusk, its cold fingers tracing the cracked panes of the house like an unwelcome visitor. By midnight, the storm had grown wild, wind howling through the trees, rattling the fragile bones of the dwelling. I stood before the door, my hand trembling on the tarnished brass handle.

KHERO KHATA / Exit wounds

Tell me I am not a house without exits. Leave

May 17, 2025
May 17, 2025

The moon is a cheeseball and we are effervescent

The moon is a cheeseball,  Cratered, yellow, and huge like your eyeballs 

May 17, 2025
May 17, 2025

Wash your fruits

I rush to the mirror. My gums are pristine, no wound, no sin. But when I look back at the fruit, the truth reveals itself: the flesh is blackened, writhing with tiny, hungry mouths. The rot has teeth

May 17, 2025
May 17, 2025

déjà vu

Moving mindlessly and / Etching every alley along the way / With verses devoted to you

April 5, 2025
April 5, 2025

Bluebird’s anthology

Who do I tell, sir? The walls do not listen, The roads do not answer back

April 5, 2025
April 5, 2025

The morgues are full

In Gaza, the names of the martyrs slip through silence, lost to a world too distracted to listen

April 5, 2025
April 5, 2025

Making headlines

We'll put up feigned politicians / And their fake promises instead

February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025

Exit wounds

Tell me I am not a house without exits. Leave

February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025

Fixed

The rain began at dusk, its cold fingers tracing the cracked panes of the house like an unwelcome visitor. By midnight, the storm had grown wild, wind howling through the trees, rattling the fragile bones of the dwelling. I stood before the door, my hand trembling on the tarnished brass handle.

February 1, 2025
February 1, 2025

Egg drop soup

The cream colored bowl held the steaming, almost translucent yellow broth with traces of white, garnished by an array of green onions slashed in an angle.

January 11, 2025
January 11, 2025

Kafka says

It’s been so long since we last spoke that I don’t think I can talk to you without confessing something. There you were, standing before me