The Language Parable
26 pages
$6

Summi Kaipa previously edited Interlope, a journal of experimental Asian American writing, and currently resides in the Bay Area where she freelances. Her critical and creative work has appeared in St. Mark's Poetry Project Newsletter, Kenning, Fourteen Hills, Tinfish, and Rain Taxi. She has another chapbook, The Epics (Leroy Press).

from The Language Parable

In truth I wanted so many things! I wanted new shoes. A sweater to replace my tattered one. A cup of ice cold, filtered water. A dozen Harlequin romance novels to last me through the dank nomths of winter. My mind was adrift. I imagined myself as a side-kick to Brautigan's Mr. C. Card, the filthy private eye, rummaging through the streets of the sadly comedic San Francisco, with a mind uncontrollably drifting to Babylon. Except, I was fleeing to Bollywood.