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 months 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.
Summi Kaipa received an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and is the author of three chapbooks. Kaipa was founder and editor Interlope, a magazine of innovative writing by Asian Americans (1998-2003), and she is co-editor of Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 2010). Her work has been published in Chain, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, the Literary Review, and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006). She received the Holmes Award from the Fourteen Hills Review and the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize in 2002 for her first play. She is currently working on her first full-length collection of hybrid prose poems.
