These Were My Homes: Collected Poems

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Praise for Vijay Nambisan
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Introduction
GEMINI I
	The Miracle of the Pomegranate
	Reflections on May Day
	Madras Central
	paranoia/paranoia
	Cats Have No Language
	The Attic
	Diary of the Expedition
	Grandfather’s Beard
	Death of a Terrorist
	Ill Met by Moonlight
	The Garden Variety Show
	Poetic Licence
	Auto Da Fé
	After Six Drinks
	Drums at Night
	Holy, Holy
	Flotsam
	Biography
	Narcissus in the Drought
FIRST INFINITIES
	Loss
		Dirge
		Words from the Dying City Came
		Ducks
		The Hole in the Earth
		Kalki
		Millennium
		Diogenes
		Elizabeth Oomanchery
		Aswatthama
		Snow
		Age Speaks to Age
		Christ Stopped Here
		Chyavana
		The Deserted Temple
		To HST
		Something Rich and Strange
		Medical Entry
		Mind the Gap
		Nila in Flood Time
	Balance
		To the Lord of the Dance
		Spider
		Ilyushin
		De Maupussant’s Lover
		Lady with Parrot
		Bhima in the Forest
		When Suddenly the Poems Die
		The Door
		The Nuns
		To Have Been Written in Urdu
		Śankuntala
		Mahaśivaratri
		Grown-up
		To K, Who Said a Poem Ended Weakly
		First Infinities: Need
		First Infinities: Hospital
		First Infinities: Drying Out
		Dvija
		You, Wystan Auden
		To Dom
		Half-life
	Profit
		A Little Better
		Essay in Capitalism
		No Fallacy Is Pathetic
		Meeting a Translator
		The Fly in the Ointment
		Names
		Making Tea
		Pills
		Making Coffee
		Lint
		Those Blind from Birth
		These Were My Homes
		Wet Dream
		On First Looking into Whitman’s Humour
		Summer Triangle
		The Rain Is Pouring down Again
		A Gift of Tongues
		Neighbours
		The Corporate Poet
		A Town Like Ali’s
		Shame and Renown
NEW POEMS
	Good Friday
	Billennium
	The Sunday Mystery Show
	To Vivekananda, Jr
	Schrödinger’s Cat
	The Temple
	Lent
	Cophetua
	For the Tibetan New Year
	The Evidence of My Senses
		Just Talk
		Integument
		Hear, Hear
		Smell of Things to Come
		An Eye for an Eye
	All Cock
	Familial
		One Gift My Father Gave Me
		My Father’s Hand
		My Mother Would Not
		On Vishu
		Frost in Summer
	Calypso to Odysseus
	Duck Poems
		Buoyancy
		Original Sin
		Double Bill
		Mach Duck
		L’après-midi d’un Canard
	Shanghai Girls
	The Shopping Mall
	Hand
	Morning Walk
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